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Tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.

 

― Oliver Burkeman

  

It was a fantastic walk through the Sigmund-Thun Klamm and round the Klammsee.

 

The Klammsee is a reservoir, is an underground storage with a volume of 200,000 m³ and part of the power station Kaprun. The dam Bürgsperre with a height of 19 m accumulates the Kaprun Ache.

The beautiful place is located in the municipality of Kaprun in Salzburg in Austria.

  

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Wish you all a wonderful and relaxing weekend!

 

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- Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -

 

"It's always now isn't it?" "Except when you look at a photograph; then it's then!" MJH

This chipmunk that we found deep in the forest was hiding in plain sight. it thought by not moving it would not be found, and that nearly was the case. We could hardly see it in the light as diminished by the trees; had to turn the speed down and the iso up to photograph it. A little light came through a break in the tree tops which can be seen in the eye reflection.

 

Photo taken in Kent Gardens Park, McLean, Virginia.

I was photographing damsels at the local ponds ,when I spotted this dragonfly . I managed to follow it ,and capture some pictures after it had settled for a while. I was very pleased to find out later this was my first photo of a scarce chaser!

Eng ☞ Old wooden wheels in a Lavender field.

 

Esp ☞ Viejas ruedas de madera en un campo de lavanda.

 

Fra ☞ Vieilles roues en bois dans un champ de lavande.

This was my first time to set my alarm clock to 4:50 AM on a sunday morning. I really wanted to take a picutre of this beautiful place on sunrise. As it turned out, I wasn't the only one with this intention. About ten other photographers were already there :-)

 

Here I met Eric Jacob (ej foto) who is also an Olympus photographer! Thank you for the nice conversation and the exchange of knowledge. Hope to hear more from you soon.

 

I made a lot of photos this morning. This one is made of a set of HDR photos, stitched together to a panorama. Hope you like it!

The dunes at Chaves beach in Boa Vista Island, Cape Verde

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,

The earth, and every common sight

To me did seem

Apparelled in celestial light,

The glory and the freshness of a dream.

 

-- William Wordsworth

 

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Two turtles enjoying the day on the lake.

I think these are painted turtles; if I'm wrong, please correct me.

(Best in large)

 

Thanks for your visit and comments, much appreciated!🙋‍♀️

Was a beautiful day.. I love this time of year..

This nest was right against the wall of my bedroom and there was a constant stream of visitors which didn't appear to bother them in the slightest.

Could not resist to preserve this arrangement. It was cold outside and these chairs are metal, so no point in hanging around for anyone to sit down. One day I´ll start shooting pictures with people in them. What else is there that is interesting really?

..it was Saturday, about 7am, i'd been on the streets since 3am ...and I found myself on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, the day was just breaking and two young guys passed by ... on their way home from a Friday night out .. they stopped for a chat, they were friendly, knowledgable around the camera and genuinely interested in what I was doing.

 

Hope you like the pic guys ...

 

*Mashallah*

 

PS : she's a baby girl :)

The Bressanone (Brixen) Cathedral was built in 980. Eventually, after two fires, the Romanesque design with its three naves and two front towers was constructed (around 1200). A Baroque design was later constructed in 1745-1754.

 

The Bressanone Cathedral's cloister is one of the most important monuments of art in South Tyrol. The cloister is famous in particular for its Gothic frescoes. It was originally built in pre Romanesque times but later redesigned in Romanesque and Gothic style.

 

A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of a building.

 

The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church usually indicates that it was part of a monastic foundation forming a continuous and solid architectural barrier that effectively separated the world of the monks from that of the serfs and workmen, whose lives and works went on outside and around the cloister.

 

(Nikon, 14mm, 1/50 @ f/4, ISO 200)

 

Rila Monastery - the monastery was founded in the 14th century on the site of the hermitage Ivan Rila existing since the 10th century in the valley of Rila mountain.

Modern form of the monastery dates from the 19th century, when through the victims of Bulgarian society and with the agreement of the Turkish authorities built a huge monastery complex. The walls of a thickness of 2 m and a height of 24 m giving it the appearance of a fortified stronghold. The inner courtyard is surrounded by three-storey buildings with arches painted in black and white and wooden galleries.

The main church of the Holy Mother of God is a three-nave basilica based on a cruciform plan with a dome at the intersection of the aisles. The pride of the temple are frescoes and great iconostasis.

In 1983 the monastery was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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Rylski Monastyr – monastyr został założony w XIV na miejscu pustelni Iwana z Riły istniejącej od X wieku w kotlinie górskiego masywu Riła.

Współczesna postać monastyru pochodzi z XIX w., kiedy to dzięki ofiarom społeczeństwa bułgarskiego i przy zgodzie władz tureckich wybudowano ogromny kompleks klasztorny. Mury grubości 2 m i wysokości 24 m nadają mu wygląd warownej twierdzy. Wewnętrzny dziedziniec otaczają trójkondygnacyjne budynki z łukami pomalowanymi na czarno i biało oraz drewnianymi krużgankami.

Główna cerkiew pod wezwaniem Świętej Bogurodzicy to trójnawowa bazylika oparta na planie krzyża z kopułą na skrzyżowaniu naw. Ozdobą świątyni są freski i olbrzymi ikonostas.

W 1983 monastyr został wpisany na listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO.

I was so so busy and most probably that will be same for a long time...Not only job..I wish only it was...

I might not able to comment your picture on time even not able to do..

if this is important for you , please do not commented....

eine hübsche Küche, gewidment meiner FlickrFreundin Claudia Höhl

The palace in Jankowice was built at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and its reconstruction took place in 1803 on the order of Wawrzyniec Engestrӧm (a Swedish envoy alongside King Stanisław August Poniatowski), who settled in Wielkopolska. The palace was built in the style of romanticism. It is surrounded by a park with an area of 18.6 ha. There is a pond with 4 islands and a rich tree stand with 50 species (limes, plane trees, chestnuts, oaks and others).

The palace and park complex is owned by the Tarnowo Podgórne commune, which carried out a thorough renovation and revitalization of the park in 2018.

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Pałac w Jankowicach zbudowany został na przełomie XVIII i XIX wieku, a jego przebudowa nastąpiła w roku 1803 roku na polecenie Wawrzyńca Engestrӧma (posła szwedzkiego przy królu Stanisławie Auguście Poniatowskim), który osiadł w Wielkopolsce. Pałac zbudowano w stylu klasycyzmu romantycznego. Otoczony jest parkiem o powierzchni 18,6 ha. Znajduje się w nim staw z 4 wyspami, oraz bogaty drzewostan liczący 50 gatunków (lipy, platany, kasztanowce, dęby i inne).

Zespół pałacowo-parkowy jest własnością gminy Tarnowo Podgórne, która przeprowadziła gruntowny remont i rewitalizację parku w 2018 roku.

He was born 30 December 1869 at Swanmore, county of Hampshire, England.

 

In 1876 he emigrated to Canada with his family and settled on a farm near the hamlet of Egypt, south of Sibbald Point on Lake Simcoe.

 

Leacock was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto. He completed a degree in modern languages at the University of Toronto in 1891.

 

Inspired by Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.D. in political economy and political science under Veblen in 1903.

 

while it was still dark we had gone to a simple bird hide to be there before the flocks of Meyer's parrots and African green pigeons arrive at the clay eating site at sunrise.

 

While we were waiting we heard some noise behind us and after a while we knew these were warthogs ( definitely safer than some other possibilities...)

 

The family of warthogs came closer and had picked up our scent but they had no clue where we were.

The huge male in this image was walking in front and stopped nearby to look in our direction.

 

You can clearly see both set of tusks of which the very sharp small ones are used for fighting other warthogs or for defense against predators. The larger ones are used for digging etc.

 

Kafue National Park, Zambia

 

phacochoerus africanus

common warthog

knobbelzwijn

phacochère

Warzenschwein

  

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Please do not use my photos on websites, blogs or in any other media without my explicit permission.

Foto wurde durch meine Frau aufgenommen, mit ihrer Ausrüstung -Canon 100-400 L IS II USM, Canon EOS80D - Im Eberswalder Zoo ist es immer eine Herausforderug gute Fotos zu machen, Viele hohe Bäume erschweren das Fotografieren, aber bei hohen Temeraturen ist es dort auszuhalten

Yeah, and a Happy Fucking Valentine's Day to you, too.

 

I want you to hold out the palm of your hand

Why don't we leave it at that?

 

My Jam

  

Lily flower taken at Melbourne Botanical Gardens.

 

Hope you enjoy the instrumental hit " Lily Was Here " by Candy Dulfer and Dave Stewart.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SfSQ3lQmJw

 

Many thanks for your visit, comments , invites and faves..it is always appreciated..

 

HMBT

Tobermory was built as a fishing port in the late 18th century and is now the main town on Mull. It is a picture-postcard of a place with the brightly painted buildings along the main street to the pier and the high woodland-fringed hills surrounding the bay.

Die kleinen Nilgänschen machen einen Ausflug an den nahen See.

I was driving back from Fingeringhoe reserve with no success, when I spotted a few Linnets on a wire fence! It's amazing how close you can get when your sitting in the car! Luckily the background was ok too! First one I've photographed for a few years!

I was looking over my photos to see which one I could post, and looking at this one just kind of relaxed me while I was looking at it. So, I dusted it off and cleaned it up and posted it.

Have a great Sunday

This photo was taken 23 minutes later at the same observation lounge of Tochou (都庁) as the previous photo.

 

The road marked by taller buildings toward Fujisan is National Route 20, which is also called Koushuu Kaidou (甲州街道) as the trunk road leads to Yamanashi prefecture (山梨県), and Koushuu is its old name.

Shinjuku was originally developed as a post town on Koushuu Kaidou in the Edo era. Shinjuku (新宿) means “new post town.”

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We don´t see light we are light.

and we´re spreading light.

Where light shines through

it´s something thin and fragile

But only that way can the light get in...

 

There are places to go where your spirits are never dampened. Look for those places.

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Not all insights need to be dazzling.

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It's only possible to live happily ever after on a moment to moment basis.

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The paths we take depend on our definitions of success.

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Projection is; seeing the world through our own experience.

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