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- Who ate all my nuts??? I know I put them here somewhere!
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"Night Gazing" Piccadilly Circus, London, UK
Max-Joseph-Platz is a square in the centre of Munich, named after King Maximilian I. Joseph, the first king of Bavaria. The centre of the square features a statue of the king.
This is a 360° panorama showing the square in it's entirely. Most prominent in the centre are the Residenz (Residence), the statue of King Max and the Nationaltheater ("National Theatre"). View in XXL
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Mirador de San Nicolas, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
4 images stitched with Microsoft Image Composite Editor
HDR processed with Lightroom and Photomatix
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2016 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Bjarke Ingels, London, UK
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"Kinetic" Big Ben, London, UK
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"Constancy" Big Ben, London, UK
Halloween and Fall Colors - This where many wedding photography takes place. Too bad it's mostly in the summer because they are missing all this :)
Canon 6D sport - Olympian Chantal Laboureur from Germany diving to dig the ball at the Swatch FIVB Toronto Finals
From the kid representing the spring, the lovers representing the summer, the mother representing the fall and finally the old man; the winter himself.. haha.. pick your style...
Flying into Brisbane from Melbourne at sunset recently. It was such a clear day, you can even see the Glasshouse Mtns.
Explored #169.
Tired of my squirrels yet? Here is ONE MORE. Sorry...
Happy Fence Friday! :-) HFF
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"Night Pulse", The Shard, London, UK
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The Seine and Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
This year has not been one of the better years in my life and I have really struggled just to continue with what needs to be done,
I have had a hard time breaking loose to focus on photography or even art. Every so often I force myself to not think of life and just take photos. This is another shot of Mono Lake from my recent road trip. I hope you all enjoy these little glimpses into my life.
On a side note I have been looking at the Flickr Explore lists every day, and looking back at what I am doing wrong with my art, and at first was bummed when my work was not measuring up, but now I have made my peace, and I have come to the conclusion that my work is not algorithm friendly and not worthy of "Explore" status.
Resting on the grass.
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Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France
Louis Vuitton Foundation, "Fondation Louis-Vuitton pour la création" is an art museum and cultural center, Paris, France
Finished up the 12 panel mosaic.
LUM-15x120sec/each panel
(6hrs.)
QHY23M & 11"Celestron Hyperstar(F/2)
RGB-17x1200sec,, 3 panel mosaic
(5hr. 40min)
QHY10 OSC & AstroTech AT65EDQ
3 panel mosaic (RGB color) added to 12 panel Luminance mosaic
Images acquired with APT(AstroPhotography Tool) and Nebulosity4. Pre-Processed with PixInsight. Post Processing with PS CS6 and PI
Located in the constellation of Andromeda(hence the name :) )this large spiral galaxy is 2.5 million light years away. It can be seen with the naked eye on moonless nights from even moderately light polluted skies. It has been recently estimated to contain nearly 1 trillion stars
La Roche de Vergisson n'est pas aussi célèbre que sa voisine la Roche de Solutré, mais c'est tout aussi beau.
Elle est facile à gravir, on y découvre de son sommet un vaste paysage et une vue imprenable sur la Roche de Solutré. Le charmant petit village de Vergisson se niche en contrebas.
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At the top of the Roche de Vergisson
The Roche de Vergisson is not as famous as its neighbor the Roche de Solutré, but it's just as beautiful. It's easy to climb.
On its summit, you discover a vast landscape and breathtaking views of the Roche de Solutré. The charming village of Vergisson nestles below.
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Vergisson - Bourgogne du Sud / South Burgundy - France
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"Sunrise" Canary Wharf, London, UK
Location: Kubah Nat. Park, Borneo
Toxicity: Mildly venomous (but non-medically significant to human)
The more stressed this bronzeback gets, the bluer (more blue) it become. The species is most easily identified when its anterior body is inflated in defense : at such times the vivid blue of the interstitial skin (the skin between the scales) is revealed. Though the Elegant Bronzeback also has blue interstitial skin, this appears to be far more intense in the Blue Bronzeback.
Toxicity: Non-venomous
Ce soir là , par une belle soirée d'été, j'ai diné en famille sur une terrasse en bord de Saône, dans un charmant petit restaurant au nord de Mâcon qui fait de l'excellente cuisine créole.
L'endroit est très tranquille, et il faisait un temps de rêve. Nous nous sommes régalés, et avons bu une bonne bouteille de Viré Clessé (vin blanc du Mâconnais).
Nous sommes sortis de table alors que la nuit tombait et avons fait quelques pas au bord de la rivière.
Il n'y avait pas un nuage dans le ciel, la lune brillait et se reflétait dans la Saône, et les étoiles sont apparues progressivement.
Ce spectacle magique offert par notre chère nature nous a fait ressentir toute la paix du lieu, et nous a rempli de joie et de gratitude, cela terminait bien la soirée.
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A beautiful moonlight
On a beautiful summer evening, I dined with family on a terrace along the Saone river, in a small restaurant in the north of Macon that makes an excellent Creole cooking.
The place is very quiet, and we had a fantastic weather. We feasted and drank a nice bottle of Viré Clessé ( white wine from Macon region).
We left the table as the night fell and made a little walk along the river.
There were no clouds in the sky, the moon shone and was reflected in the Saone river, and the stars appeared gradually. This magical spectacle offered by our beloved nature made us feel all the peace of the place, and filled us with joy and gratitude, it ended well the evening.
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Saint-Martin-Belle-Roche - Bourgogne / Burgundy - France
... Roma: bicis, vespas y besos / ... bikes, vespas and kisses
... algunas semanas desde el móvil ... asà que solo "favos" y mucho ...♥... !!! ... salud, buenas luces y muchas gracias a tod@s!!! ... feliz Agosto!!! ... xo♥ox ...
... some weeks on mobile ... so only "faves" and lot of ...♥... !!! ... health, good lights and thanks so much to @ll!!! ... happy August!!! ... xo♥ox ...
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West India Quay DLR Station II, London, UK
Le jardin potager déploie toute sa magnificence devant le splendide château renaissance de Villandry, une belle image de cet art et de cette beauté raffinée que l'on trouve dans les châteaux de la Loire.
Une invitation à redécouvrir cette chanson culte de Charles Trenet , "Douce France" : www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbBbezVtUQ
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Villandry - gentle France
The vegetable garden deploys all its magnificence in front of the gorgeous Renaissance castle of Villandry, a beautiful picture of this art and this refined beauty that we find in the chateaux of the Loire valley.
This invites us to rediscover this cult song from Charles Trenet, "Douce France" : www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EbBbezVtUQ
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Villandry - Val de Loire - France
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Panorama view from Tower Bridge's High-Level Walkways, London, UK
Panorama Original Size: 11,661 x 4368 Pixel; 300DPI
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NEO Bankside And Blue Fin Building, London, UK
Despite the possible typo, the thought of a "Chevalier" getting married should encourage research into this fine wedding group from the Poole Studios in Waterford. We in Library Towers love these old shots for the people, the clothes and especially the hats of the ladies which tell so much about the era and the status locally, nationally and sometimes internationally.
And indeed there was lots to note (local and international) about this picture. Carol Maddock quickly confirmed that this wedding party is marking marriage of Chevalier Thomas O'Loughlin and Kathleen Murphy on 27 September 1911. The wedding took place at the O'Loughlin Memorial Church, County Kilkenny (a church whose main benefactor was O'Loughlin himself - funded by family wealth from the Australian gold-rush. Yes, really!). The reception took place at the Club House Hotel in Kilkenny, with a firm suggestion from Niall McAuley that the image was taken at the hotel. Carol provides an extract from the Kilkenny People on the day:
"... in the O'Loughlin Memorial Church in St. John's Parish, when Chevalier Thomas O'Loughlin, Killarney Villa, Ballarat, Australia, was united in marriage with Miss Kathleen Murphy, fifth daughter of Mr. James Murphy, Ballybur Castle, Co. Kilkenny. Chevalier O'Loughlin (or Count O'Loughlin, as he now is[...]) is a prominent figure in the Catholic world in Ireland and Australia. A native of Kilkenny and the inheritor of a vast fortune in the Southern Continent ... The wedding ceremony was fixed for 8 o'clock...[about thirty priests con-celebrated the mass, even some from Australia!] ... followed by her sisters, the Misses Daisy and Sheela Murphy..."
We're delighted to learn that the bride and groom returned to "Southern Continent" after the wedding, and "both lived, and prospered in Australia".....
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: 27 September 1911 (date of wedding)
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2350a
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
One of our better campsites on the way up from Oodnadatta to Finke and Mt Dare where we again caught up with Kim and Venita who had made a detour to Coober Pedy for communications problems!!!
We continued on to Old Andado HS for a very enjoyable roast dinner.. and later returned here on our way south..
The Flickr map even shows it!
Adnobangalina Waterhole Near Eringa
ALOFBRID we are now safely home after 31 days on the road and 7,000km later.
We had some great experiences, but failed to achieve the aim of the trip, which was to cross the Simpson Desert around the Rig Road.
This is the second time we have organised this trip and failed, the first time from an injury, this time because of the wettest season across Australia for years it seems.
Floods down the coast, knives from kitchens washed up on Sydney beaches after the dunes and beaches were eroded, and muddy floodways, puddles and ruts and Grey Nomads everywhere wherever we went!
Our travelling companions refused to go home without attempting it, so we left them in Mt Dare with the risk of 25mm rains across the desert and us being stranded 1000km from our trailer and gear in Marree.
Kim and Venita took their all-wheel drive VW Transporter across the French Line. Not an enjoyable trip. Too much traffic, too many big corrugations created by people towing trailers across, and many motor bikes and Quad bikes heading to the end of the Finke Race!
We had a pleasant drive south, but racing the rain, back to our trailer and continued up to Birdsville! Where we ran into K and V again as they came from Big Red!
We tuned in on the radio to Australia All Over and heard Macca hear, clear as a bell.
www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/australiaallover/
And Macca on the radio...
North of Oodnadatta in the Pedirka Desert...
See also #Eringawaterhole on #Instagram for more of ... #roundAustraliawithspelio
On the Lindsay Creek, which flows down into the Stevenson Creek, but peters out into the sand dunes near Mt Sarah homestead, all in the Eyre Basin, but it never reaches Lake Eyre! Neither does the mighty old Finke River
See the video clip on Youtube of our arrival...
youtu.be/Ho3cvgowfiY In comments below.
See a profile on Macca published on the Australian in 2007..
www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine...
There is also a good reference to Macca on Wikipedia,
He is celebrating 35 years on ABC radio today in Blackall, near the Black Stump!
See..
www.desertexpeditions.org/robyn-davidson-essay.html
Robyn was participating in an Australian Desert Expeditions Archaeological Expedition along Eyre Creek in the eastern Simpson Desert, Queensland.
The Australian desert: historically a place of heartbreak or of God. Explorers vanished into it. Pioneers met bitter ends there. Wives killed themselves for loneliness. Nowadays convoys of Toyota tourists charge across it, enjoying its beauty and breadth, but in an ambiguous way, as if there were something in it to conquer. Something dangerous to be put down.
The Protestant Church of St John (German: Johanneskirche) in Stuttgart was built in the Gothic Revival style from 1864 to 1876 by its chief architect, Christian Friedrich von Leins. It lies on a peninsula of the Feuersee (Fire Lake), while the main entrance and tower marks the beginning of the former Johannesstraße (St. John's Street).
After being nearly destroyed in the Second World War, the main church building was reconstructed, but the Gothic vaults were replaced with modern ones and the tower was intentionally left incomplete to serve as a sort of war memorial. (Wikipedia)
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Nothing like a good flip and lots of blending to get this side-by-side selfies of sorts.
After shooting this amazing doorway cloaked in ivy and ferns, I left the camera on the tripod and thought I would get in the picture (I have so many), then I took the same pic of Marybeth. In PS, I tiles the image by flipping MB's side, The center fern looked obviously tiled so I worked on it with the history brush (you can see the resemblance to the one on the left). I also made a bunch of changes to the stone work so it didn't look exactly symmetrical (again, all with a history brush), I even reversed the logo on MB's hat so it appears "normal".
Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!!
As the sun rises over Lake Michigan, a Canada Goose honkers down on a breakfast of dandelions along Chicago's Belmont Harbor.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 200, f/6.3, 200mm, 1/800s
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National Gallery, London, UK
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"Communion" London Underground, London, UK
Shepherd's Bush London Underground Station.
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Processing: by Swift. Data acquired by Donkelaar. Integration just 4.5 hours per Chanel with a Veloce RH 200. at f2.8 (fast optics) It would be very nice to see what 30 hours integration look like using this scope and 16803 ccd combination.