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Picture taken in a bar.
This is the second picture of my ongoing portraits study.
I had litte post-processing to do. In darktable, I converted the picture to black and white, edited a bit the curves, and tuned a bit the local contrast enhancement filter. After this, in the Gimp, I segmented the background and made it slightly more blurry and lighter. I also added two very light gradients from transparent to white in the corners.
Wise, lovely, smart, soulful, beautiful, intelligent, creative, full of heart and soul, sensual, muse, delight and wonderful woman.
PS: Tell Spotify, Alexa, Siri and Amazon to play music by
JOHN WILLIAM HAMMOND (use all three names) Enjoy.
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"Faith Is The Owl, That Feels The Light, When The Dusk Turns Darkness, Into The Night "
Rabindranath Tagore (Variation)
A Eurasion Eagle Owl On Display ( Alive, not stuffed ) At The Visitor Centre, Wirral Way, Wirral Country Park !
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Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, 11.7 miles (18.8 kilometres) south west and upstream of central London on the River Thames. Building of the palace began in 1515 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a favourite of King Henry VIII. In 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the cardinal gave the palace to the King to check his disgrace; Henry VIII later enlarged it. Along with St James's Palace, it is one of only two surviving palaces out of the many owned by King Henry VIII.
In the following century, King William III's massive rebuilding and expansion work, which was intended to rival Versailles, destroyed much of the Tudor palace. Work ceased in 1694, leaving the palace in two distinct contrasting architectural styles, domestic Tudor and Baroque. While the palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of pink bricks and a symmetrical, if vague, balancing of successive low wings. King George II was the last monarch to reside in the palace.
Today, the palace is open to the public and is a major tourist attraction, easily reached by train from Waterloo station in central London and served by Hampton Court railway station in East Molesey, in Transport for London's Zone 6. In addition, London Buses routes 111, 216, 411 and R68 stop outside the palace gates. The structure and grounds are cared for by an independent charity, Historic Royal Palaces, which receives no funding from the Government or the Crown. In addition the palace continues to display a large number of works of art from the Royal Collection.
Apart from the Palace itself and its gardens, other points of interest for visitors include the celebrated maze, the historic real tennis court, and the huge grape vine, the largest in the world as of 2005.
The palace's Home Park is the site of the annual Hampton Court Palace Festival and Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
The grounds as they appear today were laid out in grand style in the late 17th century. There are no authentic remains of Henry VIII's gardens, merely a small knot garden, planted in 1924, which hints at the gardens' 16th-century appearance. Today, the dominating feature of the grounds is the great landscaping scheme constructed for Sir Christopher Wren's intended new palace. From a water-bounded semicircular parterre, the length of the east front, three avenues radiate in a crow's foot pattern. The central avenue, containing not a walk or a drive, but the great canal known as the Long Water, was excavated during the reign of Charles II, in 1662. The design, radical at the time, is another immediately recognizable influence from Versailles, and was indeed laid out by pupils of André Le Nôtre, Louis XIV's landscape gardener.
On the south side of the palace is the Privy Garden bounded by semi-circular wrought iron gates by Jean Tijou. This garden, originally William III's private garden, was replanted in 1992 in period style with manicured hollies and yews along a geometric system of paths.
On a raised site overlooking the Thames, is a small pavilion, the Banqueting House. This was built circa 1700, for informal meals and entertainments in the gardens rather than for the larger state dinners which would have taken place inside the palace itself. A nearby conservatory houses the "Great Vine", planted in 1769; by 1968 it had a trunk 81 inches thick and has a length of 100 feet. It still produces an annual crop of grapes.
The palace included apartments for the use of favoured royal friends. One such apartment is described as being in "The Pavilion and situated on the Home Park" of Hampton Court Palace. This privilege was first extended about 1817 by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, to his friend, Lieut General James Moore, K.C., and his new bride, Miss Cecilia Watson. George IV continued this arrangement following the death of Prince Edward on 23 January 1820. The Queen continued the arrangement for the widow of General Moore, following his death on 24 April 1838. This particular apartment was used for 21 years or more and spanned three different sponsors.
A well-known curiosity of the palace's grounds is Hampton Court Maze; planted in the 1690s by George London and Henry Wise for William III. It was originally planted with hornbeam; it has been repaired latterly using many different types of hedge. there is a 3D online browser simulation of the Hampton Court Maze.
Inspired by narrow views of a Tudor garden that can be seen through doorways in a painting, The Family of Henry VIII, hanging in the palace's Haunted Gallery, a new garden in the style of Henry VIII's 16th-century Privy Gardens, has been designed to celebrate the anniversary of that King's accession to the throne. Sited on the former Chapel Court Garden, it has been planted with flowers and herbs from the 16th century, and is completed by gilded heraldic beasts and bold green and white painted fences. The heraldic beasts carved by Ben Harms and Ray Gonzalez of G&H Studios include the golden lion of England, The white greyhound of Richmond, the red dragon of Wales and the white hart of Richard II, all carved from English oak. The garden's architect was Todd Langstaffe-Gowan, who collaborated with James Fox and the Gardens Team at Historic Royal Palaces.
The formal gardens and park are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
(Wikipedia)
Hampton Court Palace ist ein Schloss im äußersten Südwesten Londons am linken Ufer der Themse im Stadtbezirk Richmond upon Thames. Das Schloss war von 1528 bis 1737 eine bevorzugte Residenz der englischen und britischen Könige. Ursprünglich wurde es im Tudorstil erbaut, gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts und im 18. Jahrhundert wurden große Teile im Stile des englischen Barock umgebaut. Mit seinen gewaltigen Ausmaßen, seiner prächtigen Innenausstattung und seinen ausgedehnten Gärten gilt es als eines der Hauptwerke des Tudorstils und des Barocks in England.
Das Schloss erlebte mehrere königliche Hochzeiten, Geburten und Sterbefälle. Heinrich VIII. heiratete hier seine sechste Gemahlin Catherine Parr. Sein Sohn Eduard VI. wurde im Schloss geboren und getauft, dessen Mutter Jane Seymour sowie die Frau Jakobs I., Anna starben in dem Schloss, und Wilhelm III. erlitt im Park einen Reitunfall, an dessen Folgen er wenig später starb.
Hampton Court besaß einst einen der prachtvollsten Gärten in ganz Europa. Vermutlich befand sich an der Stelle des heutigen Brunnenhofs bereits ein Garten für Kardinal Wolsey. Heinrich VIII. ließ vor der Südfassade einen Garten anlegen. Andre Mollet legte für Karl II. ab 1661 den großen Kanal an, der mittelachsig vom Schloss ausging und mit den sternförmig vom Schlossplatz ausgehenden Alleen korrespondierte. Parallel zum barocken Ausbau des Schlosses durch Christopher Wren erfolgte die Anlage der Gärten nach französischem Vorbild.
Heute ist das Schloss von einem 24 ha großen Garten umgeben, der in drei Anlagen unterteilt wird:
Der südlich des Schlosses gelegene Privy Garden, der königliche Privatgarten, wurde 1995 als formal angelegter Barockgarten im Zustand von 1702 restauriert. Er besteht aus vier um einen runden Teich angelegte Broderieparterres und wurde ursprünglich 1689 von Henry Wise angelegt. An der Südspitze verläuft am gewundenen Ufer der Themse entlang ein reich gearbeiteter, schmiedeeiserner Zaun von Jean Tijou. Westlich des Privy Garten liegt ein 1924 im Stil der Tudorzeit angelegter Knotengarten sowie der aus Blumenbeeten bestehende Teichgarten. Die untere Orangerie dient heute als Ausstellungsraum für Mantegnas Der Triumph des Caesar. Neben der Orangiere befindet sich in einem Gewächshaus der 1769 von Lancelot Capability Brown gepflanzte The great Vine. Der Weinstock gilt mit einem Umfang von 3,8 m und mit bis zu 75 m langen Zweigen als größter Weinstock der Welt. Am Themseufer befindet sich das Banqueting House, ein 1700 gebauter und innen von Antonio Verrio ausgemalter intimer Speisesaal.
Den östlichen Garten ließ Wilhelm III. von Daniel Marot als halbkreisförmigen Brunnengarten mit zwölf Springbrunnen, Buchsbaumrabatten und Statuen anlegen. Die Brunnen, Beete und Statuen wurden bereits ab 1707 unter Königin Anne wieder entfernt, ab 1710 wurde der Garten von halbrunden Kanälen eingefasst. Seine heutige Form mit Rasenflächen und gestutzten Eiben und Stechpalmen erhielt der Garten schließlich im 19. Jahrhundert. Am nördlichen Ende des entlang der Schlossfassade führenden Breiten Wegs liegt der um 1620 angelegte Tennisplatz, der auch heute noch als Sportstätte dient.
Nördlich des Schlosses lag in der Tudor-Zeit der große Obstgarten sowie der Turnierplatz, der über fünf Türme für die Zuschauer verfügte. Wilhelm III. ließ ab 1690 von Henry Wise den nördlichen Garten als Wilderness mit hohen gestutzten Hecken anlegen. Der berühmte, trapezförmige Irrgarten ist der einzig erhaltene Rest dieser Gartenanlage. Durch den etwa 1350 m² großen Irrgarten führen etwa 800 m gewundene Wege durch zwei Meter hohe Eibenhecken. Der übrige Garten ist heute eine mit Bäumen bestandene Wiese. Der frühere Turnierplatz ist heute in kleinere Gärten unterteilt, einer der Zuschauertürme ist noch erhalten und befindet sich neben dem Gartenrestaurant.
Östlich der Gärten erstreckt sich in einer Themseschleife der 304 ha große Home Park. Bereits Giles Daubeney ließ einen etwa 120 ha großen Hirschpark einrichten. Im Park lebt heute eine etwa 270 Tiere starke Damwildherde, durch den Park führen mehrere Alleen und der etwa 1 km lange große Kanal. Nördlich des Wildparks schließt sich der Bushy Park an.
Anfang Juli findet im Park seit 1990 jährlich die von der Royal Horticultural Society veranstaltete einwöchige Hampton Court Palace Flower Show statt, die größte jährliche Blumenschau der Welt.
(Wikipedia)
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Ah, it is finally done! This one took a few days. Here are the lovely Pleiades and their associated filaments and clumps of dust. To their south is a diffuse warm glow known as the zodiacal light. I am very impressed by how bright it is in this picture and the dynamic range with which it presents. In visible light, it's often barely discernible if you can even find skies dark enough to view it. It's bright enough in infrared to pose a bit of a nuisance to astronomers, but in this case I think it is wonderful.
If you are familiar with WISE, you know it's an infrared observatory, and this image may not look anything like what you might expect from it. WISE image releases typically look like this. While useful, they're not particularly pretty, and they might have even turned off a lot of people from infrared imagery. I've definitely seen a general lack of interest in infrared imagery and have even seen more than a few people express displeasure about JWST being an infrared telescope, fearing all the images will be... well, ugly.
Worry not, fellow humans! JWST will produce beautiful images and they need not be presented in weirdo colors. This particular image has only one special processing trick beyond what I normally do. After some careful consideration I decided to reverse the wavelength order. I nearly always put the shortest wavelength in the blue channel and the longest in the red. This time, I did the opposite. I was afraid that cognitive bias would prevent people from enjoying this image if it was a fiery red, given the extreme familiarity the astronomy community has with the Pleiades. Sometimes you've got to do something unconventional to get the result you want.
Processing notes: Thankfully, most of the processing work was aligning and matching up each of the frames to one another. This is fairly tedious work, but it's not nearly as bad as dealing with cosmic rays. There were a few annuluses to deal with near some of the brighter stars, but they only took about 15 minutes to be rid of. I did not saturate the colors or apply any sort of sharpening.
Red: W1 (3.4 μm)
Yellow-Green: W2 (4.6 μm)
Cyan: W3 (12 μm)
Blue: W4 (22 μm)
North is up.
French collectors card in the series 'Portrait de Stars; L'encyclopédie du Cinéma' by Edito Service, 1993. Photo: Collection Christophe L. Irene Papas in Alexis Zorbas/Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis, 1964).
Irene Papas (1926) is a Greek actress of international fame. In a career spanning more than fifty years, she starred in over seventy films, including such classics as The Guns of Navarone and Zorba the Greek. Papas also portrayed ancient Greek heroines as Helen in The Trojan Women, Clytemnestra in Iphigenia, Electra and Antigone.
Irene Papas (Greek Ειρήνη Παππά) was born as Eiríni Lelékou in Chilimodion, outside Corinth in Greece in 1926. At 12, she enrolled in a dramatic school. She spent her first professional years as a singer-dancer in stage reviews and as a radio vocalist In 1943 she married director Alkis Papas. Four years later the marriage ended in a divorce. She kept his name. Papas rose to stardom acting in Greek films as the drama Hamenoi angeloi/Fallen Angels (Nikos Tsiforos, 1948) and Nekri politeia/Dead City (Frixos Iliadis, 1952). In Italy, she played in the crime comedy Le Infedeli/Unfaithfuls (Mario Monicelli, Steno, 1953) with Gina Lollobrigida, the American-Italian Film Noir The Man from Cairo (Ray Enright, 1954) starring George Raft, and the epic adventures Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio/Theodora, Slave Empress (Riccardo Freda, 1954) featuring Gianna Maria Canale, and Attila, Flagello di Dio/Attila (Pietro Francisci, William Witney, 1954) with Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren. The next stop was Hollywood, where Papas appeared for MGM in the big-budget western Tribute to a Bad Man (Robert Wise, 1956) as the love interest of James Cagney. In Athens, she was trained in the classics of Greece's Golden Age. She played all the major tragic stage roles, including Medea and Electra. In addition, she was active in the contemporary productions put on by the Greek Popular Theatre in the late 1950s. She also featured in the film Bouboulina (Kostas Andritsos, 1959) about the Greek heroine of 1821 (when Greek fought the Turks). Papas became best known to international filmgoers for her portrayals of gutsy resistance fighter Maria Pappadimos in the major box-office hit Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson, 1961); the widow in Alexis Zorbas/Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis, 1964); and the wife of Yves Montand in the political thriller Z (Costa-Gravas, 1968), which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 1969. In between, she starred in film adaptations of the classic Greek tragedies Antigoni/Antigone (George Tzavellas, Dinos Katsouridis, 1961) and Ilektra/Electra (Michael Cacoyannis, 1962), and she made her Broadway debut in 'That Summer, That Fall' (1967).
Irene Papas is an occasional singer. In 1969, she recorded 11 songs of Mikis Theodorakis, for the album Irene Papas Songs of Theodorakis. Papas and Theodorakis had worked together in 1964 on Alexis Zorbas/Zorba the Greek. In 1971 she contributed to a song of the concept album 666 of the Greek rock band Aphrodite's Child, with singer Demis Roussos and Vangelis Papathanassiou, who later became an Oscar-winning composer. With Vangelis, she also recorded 'Odes' (1976), containing eight Greek folk songs, and 'Rapsodies' (1986), an electronic rendition of seven Byzantine liturgical hymns. The songs and hymns were re-arranged by Vangelis. Both records have gained the status of classical music in Greece and are very popular around the Greek Orthodox Easter. In the cinema, she appeared as Catherine of Aragon in Anne of the Thousand Days (Charles Jarrott, 1969), opposite Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold. She also delivered award-winning performances in the ambitious Euripides adaptations directed by Michael Cacoyannis, playing Helen in The Trojan Women (1972) opposite Katharine Hepburn and Vanessa Redgrave, and Clytemnestra in Iphigenia (1977). In 1976, she starred opposite Anthony Quinn in Mohammad, Messenger of God/The Message (Moustapha Akkad, 1976) about the origin of Islam, and the message of Mohammad. With Quinn, she reunited in Lion of the Desert (Moustapha Akkad, 1982). Other interesting films were the Italian biopic, Cristo si e fermato a Eboli/Christ Stopped at Eboli (Francesco Rosi, 1979) about prominent anti-fascist author Carlo Levi (Gian-Maria Volonte), and the Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptations Erendira (Ruy Guerra, 1983), and Cronaca di una Morte Annunciata/Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Francesco Rosi, 1987) starring Rupert Everett and Ornella Muti. Her last film appearances were as Christian Bale’s mother in Captain Corelli's Mandolin (John Madden, 2001), and as a tourist on a cruise ship in Um Filme Falado/A Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira, 2003) with Catherine Deneuve. In 2002, she was named Europe's woman, a title given to women who offer a lot to European civilization. In her speech, she sang a Greek folklore song. According to IMDb, she has no intention of returning to Greece to play in the theatre, because she has suffered from continuous negative criticisms. Irene Papas lives in Greece, Spain, and Italy. In 2018 it was announced she had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for the past five years. Irene Papas is the aunt of director-producer Manousos Manousakis and actor Aias Manthopoulos.
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I followed the sound of many cawing Crows to find them mercilessly harassing a family of Great Horned Owls. This youngster wisely found a place to hide from the fracas...thankfully in a nice spot of light ;-)
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OLD & WISE
two old monks in Tibet! ;-)
these are 1:1 wax monks showed in a eastern shop "Secrets of Asia" @ deventer
they were so kind to allow me to shoot these stunning old & wise guys ;-)
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
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Candid street shot, Manchester UK.
In 1997, Wise Tours of Upper Dicker, East Sussex, took delivery of their first brand new coach in living memory although it has to be said P770 MMA was not their prettiest. The Buscraft bodied Mercedes Benz 814L was snapped at their yard on 12th February, 1998.
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This photo is inspired by the idea of walking your own path.
Sometimes it feels like you know you have to ignore all the sign and walk the opposite direction.
It's not always easy to do so, but I think it's important to look further than what people expect.
Be you, choose wise!
A big thanks to Bob who made me those nice big arrows last week!
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A wise owl came to me
I heard nothing but silence
Suddenly I heard some words
I was listening to my wiseness
And it reminds me that people
Always easily forget
It's just humans being humans
So just smile and fuck that!
I visited a local bird sancturay during the weekend. I loved the calm, dark and sharp look on this guys face.
For the Daily Dog Challenge -- 7/23 "Modest"
For Our Daily Challenge -- 7/23 "Words of Wisdom"
For 365: The 2014 Edition -- 204/365
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