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Wünsch Dir was

Oh-oh, oh, e-es kommt die Zeit, whoa-oh

In der das Wünschen wieder hilft

Es kommt die Zeit, whoa-oh

In der das Wünschen wieder hilft

Wünsch' dir was

Culzean Castle was constructed as an L-plan castle by order of the 10th Earl of Cassilis. He instructed the architect Robert Adam to rebuild a previous, but more basic, structure into a fine country house to be the seat of his earldom. The castle was built in stages between 1777 and 1792. It incorporates a large drum tower with a circular saloon inside (which overlooks the sea), a grand oval staircase and a suite of well-appointed apartments.

In 1945, the Kennedy family gave the castle and its grounds to the National Trust for Scotland (thus avoiding inheritance tax). In doing so, they stipulated that the apartment at the top of the castle be given to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower in recognition of his role as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during the Second World War. The General first visited Culzean Castle in 1946 and stayed there four times, including once while President of the United States.

The Community Hall was built as the United Free Church to the design of JD Cairns in 1908 . It was built on the site of a previous, smaller United Free church, following a union with Crail West Church (now Holy Trinity Catholic Church). It is a typical Free Presbyterian Church building dating from the Edwardian period. Like many churches of this period, it used a style derived from Scottish precedents but also fitted in with the preference for late Gothic, often labelled Perpendicular, across Britain generally.

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The church had a typical Presbyterian plan. The emphasis on preaching produced a wide and relatively short central main vessel to the church. There are shallow transepts to either side to create more space to either side of the pulpit.

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There is a short chancel which is now used as a stage and would have been the sanctuary containing the communion table and chairs for elders. To the east is a church hall which is integrated into the design of the remainder of the building. The internal design of the space that was originally the church is particularly attractive. A quality is given to the space by its expressive roof form with the underside of the main trusses forming curves articulating the bays of the church. This arrangement is linked with the pairs of arches into the transepts. At the western end of the church is the original gallery.

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It is listed Category B. Externally the main feature is the octagonal tower which forms a minor landmark in the northern part of Crail on the A917 St Andrews Road.

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This shot was taken when I was out strolling around in the nearby nature reserve of "Norra Järvafältet". I was looking for a single tree located in a grassy field so I could take a "frosty, foggy" shot later this year. I didn´t found exactly what I was looking for but I found this tree and decided I should try to find some good compositions. The tree's branches form a bit of a "mushroom hat" and are fairly symmetric. I will go back in the autumn and see how the scene changes and what colors that bring. This image is processed to be on the warm side, with saturated colors and "golden" glow to it.

This shot was taken with my Nikon D7200 and Sigma 24-105mm f4.0 art lens.

To buy this pricture as a print or limited edition framed image head over to My Gallerie at Printler.com printler.com/sv/fotograf/3902-andreas-larzon.

Windbergwasserfall

Stille am Teich ...

Silence in the pond ...

This Greenhouse was built between 1892 and 1905 by the architect Alfonse Balat for King Leopold II. It has the shape of a church. The iron construction elements are decorated with Art Nouveau floral motifs. The central part is dug with three meter deep pits (1945 and 1987) to accommodate fan palms that have grown too big.

Address: Avenue du Parc Royal 61, 1020 Brussels

FR : Serre des Palmiers dans le Domaine Royal

Adresse : Avenue du Parc Royal 61, 1020 Brussels

NL: Palmenserre in het Koninklijk Domein

De ''Palmenserre'' werd gebouwd tussen 1892 en 1905 door de architect Alfonse Balat voor Koning Leopold II. Die heeft de vorm van een kerk. Sommige spanten van het metalen gebinte zijn versierd met platen met vegetale motieven in art-nouveaustijl. In het centrale gedeelte zijn drie meter diepe kuilen gegraven (1945 en 1987) om te vermijden dat het gebladerte van de palmen het dak zou doorboren.

Foto genomen in 2011 vanaf de top van de Brusilia Residentie.

Azimut 333.8°, 3.32 km ver.

Adres: Avenue du Parc Royal 61, 1020 Brussels

Copyright © Jacques de Selliers 2022 – All rights reserved.

Reproduction prohibited without my written consent.

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Reproductie verboden zonder mijn schriftelijke toestemming.

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ET 2404 1935

In Explore on Sep. 23, 2022.

I must say, I was shocked when I saw how nighttime changes an owl's face. While they become fearsome predators at night, they also become much more adorable to us humans, who have evolved to perceive large eyes as captivating and innocent.

In an effort to find area barred owls, I set out to a local park before sunrise and came upon this Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio) in the dark. This darkness was so inky and thick, in fact, that I could not see if he was in his hole or not, so trained my tripoded camera on the hole, manually focused, and finally saw him in the preview window! Shocked for sure by those massive pupils staring down at me, a frog (which he swallowed greedily prior to this photo and while I watched) in his talons!

Interestingly, owl eyeballs are not balls at all, but so well evolved for night vision that they have elongated into eye cones. For this reason, they cannot move their eyes in their sockets, and have evolved wildly-flexible necks. With their highly acute retinas replete with rods (the light and movement sensing eye bits), there wasn't much room for cones, and so most owls see limited or no color!

This was my Grandfather's 1967 Nikon camera given to me by my Grandmother a few years ago. I don't take photos with it (it's heavy as heck) but I like looking at it because it reminds me of him.

It was such a touchy view, sitting here with Devaughn at Tempura Island. I had to snap this :-))

SLURL: Tempura Island

I've made the frame out of a texture from Irisb477.

Best view at large! :-)

- Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -

When I was a child.....baseball was the sport played in our backyard in New Jersey. I have three brothers and six sisters so we pretty much had our own family team. Now, just a few years later, baseball still rules with my own kids!

#HMM #wheniwasachild #macromondays

I was honoured to be remembered by my dear son yesterday that brought ne red roses for my birthday which is today. So proud over my young teenager !!!

We are celebrating Midsummer this weekend and after that my vacation starts so might be on and off for some weeks.

Have a lovely weekend.

Übungen der freiwilligen Feuerwehr Frohnau

water and light

I was kind of surprised the last time that I went to Circle B Bar Reserve a couple of weeks ago. The creek alongside the Alligator Alley trail was completely smothered in a blanket of pond lettuce.

I was looking for another post card and found this one. Mailed in 46 from a young man of 16 that went on the road as help for a carnival. Mailed from Colorado to family back in Arkansas. One of the articles I thought was lost in the flood but it survived, how much longer will this get past through family lineages. There was no way of knowing that when this was mailed that one day it would be subject to world wide view. Smile on Saturday - Postcards & Greeting Cards.

mit offenem Seeblick

The Church was built in 1799 on the former Caminho dos Pinheiros, today Rua da Consolação, with the help of alms from devotees to Our Lady of Consolation and with the endorsement of the diocesan bishop Mateus de Abreu Pereira were able to begin its construction, with the technique of taipa, quite common at the time. The oldest record of its construction is a document transcribed by Jacinto Ribeiro, in which it attributes the idealization of the temple to the faithful Luiz da Silva and his brothers. Located in a boggy and marshy region there is another document proving the Church's ancient existence: on November 23, 1803, an office was registered that showed the need for drinking water for the residents of the neighborhood "Nossa Senhora da Consolação". In view of the custom of baptizing the district with religious names, mainly related to sanctuaries, the Church, besides already existing, corresponded to an important piece for the functioning of the region. And, in the year 1810, a plant in the city of São Paulo contained the chapel.

Het doel bij Bopparder-Hamm was de EGP 248 042 die onderweg was met een containertrein uit Rheinhausen. Waar de trein normaal gesproken (en ook mijn overige dagen aan de Rijn) slecht beladen of zelfs leeg was was deze op 28 februari 2023 volbeladen.

Op het moment dat het sein veilig sprong voor EGP vanuit Koblenz was er ook een trein vanuit het zuiden onderweg richting Koblenz. Helaas was de trein vanuit het zuiden net iets eerder bij de fotograaf dan de EGP met een ongewenste maar misschien wel perfecte kruising bij Bopparder-Hamm als gevolg.

Op de foto komt de EGP 248 042 met volbeladen containertrein 94333 langs Bopparder-Hamm onderweg vanuit Rheinhausen naar Mannheim. Tegelijkertijd passeerde de SBB Cargo 193 658 met trein 40030 uit Melzo naar de Waalhaven Zuid.

English:

On february 28, 2023 the EGP 248 042 came along Bopparder-Hamm as train 94333 from Rheinhausen to Mannheim. At the same time the SBB Cargo 193 658 came along as train 40030 from Melzo to the Waalhaven Zuid.

Here's a scene from Ipstones Common - looking across to Ipstones Parish Church. The thing is I didn't particularly want this to be about the church or the amazing fast moving clouds but I wanted to make it about history and the passing of time.

It's amazing how fast clouds can move when it's breezy and I was looking at the tombstones and thinking of all all the people who have lived and worked in this village over the centuries, including generations of my own family. The clouds just seemed to represent that passing of time somehow.

I used an ND filter to get a slower shutter speed and some movement on the clouds. I needn't have in the end actually, but using the ND always gives a certain dreaminess so I went with it anyway. I used my camera bag for support and a release cable but made the church out of focus anyway with the idea that I'd boost the large details in post to create a kind of skull eye socket look in the windows - which I did. I also used lots of different blurring techniques before experimenting with various mono conversions. This one worked the best for me, I guess the sepia tones made it just that little bit more about the past.

So, it's an artistic representation of a scene I see most days - a scene full of memories.

It was a rainy day meaning the falls would be flowing. They were. I was quite wet and so was my camera, but worth the conditions for a shot like this.

I might add that I have a new neutral density filter with which adding to my HDR's will add even more to my shots.

This was the second stop. A bit of a walk in..... and yes quite a bit of rain. But so worth the time.

Last summer was the first time I home-raised monarchs from the eggs collected from my milkweed plants. I normally would let nature take its course, but because we were getting so many days over 90°F, I didn't want the eggs to die from the extreme heat. The experience to care for and watch the life cycle of these beautiful butterflies was amazing. This photo was taken the day a male monarch hatched; his wings were still wet. I released him the next day.

If you have a garden, please plant milkweed to help the monarchs survive and don't use harmful pesticides.

Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Have a great day!

I was in a local park earlier this summer and as I crossed a car park I found this discarded child's shoe. It was such a lovely little thing that I decided to take it with me with the intention of taking some shots of it. I took a few shots while I was still in the park using it as a prop. But then what do you do with it? It just felt wrong to throw it into a rubbish bin. So I took it home and left it in a dusty corner in the garage thinking that one day I'll find another use for it photographically. And then the Macro Mondays group announces that the theme for this week is footwear. Perfect timing!

Macro Monday Theme - Footwear

HMM

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I was inspired by other images that I've seen here on Flickr. And decided to take out one of my teacups from my cabinet, pick some flowers from a hanging basket and shoot! I used a piece of glitter construction paper for the background and a couple of my small table top LED lights. (They get extremely HOT) I know it's very girly but I just wanted to use some of my props. Hoping to get back out side soon!

Thank you everyone!

The light was so perfect and so are these rhododendrons - I had to take a picture ! They are so wildly beautiful, so flamboyant. It's a joy to see them nearly every day. Love these white ones. Fancy and frilly without being 'showpieces' - they just grow naturally every year and beguile so many people who are actually paying attention. Spring is filled with such beauty and sometimes, if we're lucky, with the warmth of the sun, as it was this day.

~ Processed in Topaz Studio ~

Hope you like my fancy flower photo. Thanks as always for your faves and comments or just for viewing - always very appreciated. May you all enjoy May and its bounty, there is so much to be grateful for to help us in life.

This orchid was given to me as a Christmas present in 2020. It was given to me as a 'Blue Orchid'.

I was pleased to see that it was setting new buds Christmas 2021 a year later. I was interested to see what it's natural colour would be as blue orchids have die injected into them.

This little beauty has emerged over the last few days. It is still only 5mm across, so I am looking forward to seeing it in full bloom (along with the other 4 blooms)

I was unable to identify this plant, but two commenters (see below) have done so for me. It's an evening primrose (Oenothera speciosa).

The plant was growing wild, with the flowers, which were about 2 in/5 cm across, fairly close to the ground. Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?

Was wäre London wohl ohne das Parlament und den Big Ben? Nicht nur das Gebäude an sich, sondern auch das Leben drum herum interessiert mich. Wie ist es so unter all diesen berühmten Gebäuden zu Leben? Klar ich komme aus Bayern, bin es also gewohnt mit altem Zeug um mich rum und trotzdem ist London doch eine ganz andere Welt für mich.

What would London probably without Parliament and the Big Ben? Not only the building itself, but also the lives of all around me interested. As it is so famous among all these buildings to life? Clear I come from Bavaria, am so used to the old stuff around me and yet London is but a completely different world for me.

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The weather was just wonderful for Christmas Day here in the Driftless region, and I should have worn ice skates when I went ice fishing on the Mississippi River today. Normally there would be several inches of snow sitting on the ice already by Christmas, but I'm not complaining. The upper Mississippi River is a fantastic fish factory and I had a fabulous day of fishing for largemouth bass, bluegills, yellow perch and black crappies. This gorgeous black crappie went right back to join all of its live companions under the ice.

Glanmore was completed in 1883 for John Philpot Curran Phillips. The building was designed by Thomas Hanley, a Belleville architect who was born in Read.

This impressive yellow brick house reflects the architectural style of the eclectic Second Empire. It features an irregular shape, with bay windows and projections; iron cresting outlining the main roof; a coloured, fish-scale pattern of slates on the concave mansard roof; wide eaves supported on carved brackets, and the original wooden eavest roughs. Stone trimmed windows and doorways have semi-circular and elliptical heads, and wood trim ornaments the semi circular heads of the dormers windows

Poike, the oldest volcano:

The Poike volcano was the first piece of land that emerged from the sea and, together with subsequent volcanic eruptions, formed the present territory of Easter Island. Its somewhat remote and isolated location and its difficult access make Poike a little-visited place. However, this mysterious territory contains secret corners and ancient legends that invite to discover it calmly and to know better the past of the island.

Poike, the first volcano on the island:

The name of Poike, usually translated by “hill”, seems to come from the Rapanui expression “Po” (night); “ike” (break) which means “place where the night breaks” because it is the first place on the island that receives the first rays of the rising sun.

Indeed, the Poike is located at the eastern end of Easter Island, and is the oldest of the three main volcanoes on the island, next to the Rano Kau and the Ma’unga Terevaka, which originated their formation. It is estimated that this first eruptive center emerged from the sea about 3 million years ago creating the so-called Poike Peninsula, although its activity was maintained until about 300 thousand years ago. Originally this peninsula was an island but later it was joined to the main body of the island, by lava flows coming from the Terevaka and other nearby volcanic centers.

The Poike is now an inactive volcano with a fairly symmetrical cone shape. The main crater has a circular shape and by its resemblance to a halo of sun or moon was called Pua Katiki, although in another version its name would mean “hill that serves to monitor the cattle.” Unlike other craters, this is totally dry and measures around 150 meters in diameter and about 10 meters deep. Inside a small eucalyptus forest grows that crowns the summit like a leafy green plume visible from afar.

From Pua Katiki, where the Poike reaches a maximum height of 460 meters, a wide plain of gentle slope is observed. which covers an area of about 4.5 km from east to west and 3.5 km from north to south. This large area, almost exclusively covered by a type of grass called here hoi (Sporobolus indicus), ends abruptly on 100-meter-high coastal cliffs formed by the continuous erosion of the sea on the Poike peninsula.

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For some unknown reason, during the period of construction of the large statues, considered the golden age of the island, it is believed that the inhabitants of the Poike peninsula remained separate from the others and hardly participated in the work of carving in the quarries of Rano Raraku.

One proof of its isolation is that only two of the statues found in the Poike are made of the lapilli tuff of the Rano Raraku, while the rest of the statues were made of the white trachyte coming from the Poike deposits.

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21km northeast of Hanga Roa.

Hydrangea

I was visiting the Diefenbunker in June with my mother (88) and she stepped into the shot before I was finished. Turns out this is an image that I have thought about a bit since that day as my Mom is in her final years.

………But there was no show - Spiderman was obviously off on the World wide Web somewhere! Just have to make do with boring old Moths then, who for some reason seem to fly off when Batty Bat comes out to play!! For the interested I created this Spooky Tabletop shot by simply Bluetac'ing a wobbly translucent toy bat on to my Mac screen, whilst displaying a Web shot I took at Tarn Hows (Cumbria) and ‘Click’ this ‘Spooky Night’ shot was taken! The eyes were added using the Radial Filter tools in Lightroom 6. Don’t be too frightened and do have a Happy Smile On Saturday folks. Alan:-) HSoS…….

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This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.

Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the stars which are 3mm and the butterfly sequins which are 12mm in diameter. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers and stars until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.

These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because it is a complex pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.

It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.