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Accepted for Australian Photographic Society Australian Digital Photography Awards 2017.
Featured in the ABC weather submissions for postcode 4725 at www.abc.net.au/westqld/weather/?forecast=barcaldine-4725&... 10/12/2015.
BIG storm over Barcy. Shot this a while ago just before it broke. In the middle of it as I post. Welcome relief from the heat.
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Beautifully situated bird watching hide on the Dutch Wadden Sea island of Ameland.
This bird hide is located north of the village of Hollum, on the edge of a dune lake.
Submitted: 24/05/2021
Accepted: 25/05/2021
Published:
- DPG Media NV (Belgium) 19-May-2023
- Roularta Media Group (Belgium) 11-Jul-2024
Hiking back the Emerald Lake trail in RMNP, we stumbled across this cow elk grazing down the slope from us. She was very calm, looking at me directly a few times while I captured a couple of images.
She had a very stately, almost regal demeanor, taking her time and carefully observing her surroundings. If I thought it would be this straightforward, I would take up more wildlife photography.
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Recognition:
Accepted for Display - JUN-JUL 2022, International Exhibition of Photography, San Diego County Fair, Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds, California
Merit Image - NOV 2020 Professional Photographers of San Diego County (PPSDC), Nature/Landscape category
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
- Lao Tzu-
Luna accepts to keep this hat on her head just for Love.
Luna for Happy-Caturday theme : "For love".
Happy Caturday and Happy New Year to all my Flickr's Friends❤
LACPIXEL - 2022
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“All DAYS are not same.
All HUMAN-BEINGS are not same.
All RELATIONSHIPS are not same.
Let’s not find SIMILARITIES.
Let’s not copy one another.
Accept our UNIQUENESS.
Celebrate our differences.”
― Sanjeev Himachali
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Bahla Fort (Qal'at Bahla) is one of four historic fortresses situated at the foot of the Djebel Akhdar highlands in Oman. It was built in the 13th and 14th centuries, when the oasis of Bahla was prosperous under the control of the Banu Nabhan tribe. The fort's ruined adobe walls and towers rise some 165 feet above its sandstone foundations. Nearby to the southwest is the Friday Mosque with a 14th-century sculpted mihrab. The fort was not restored or conserved before 1987, and had fallen into a parlous state, with parts of the walls collapsing each year in the rainy season. The fort became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. It was included in the List of World Heritage in Danger from 1988. Restoration works began in the 1990s, and nearly $9m were spent by the Omani government from 1993 to 1999. It remained covered with scaffolding and closed to tourists for many years. It was removed from the list of endangered sites in 2004.
Submitted 09/02/2015
Accepted 06/03/2015
Published:
- Kunth Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) 31-Aug-2016
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Rabban Hormizd Monastery is an important monastery of the Chaldean Catholic Church, founded about 640 AD, carved out in the mountains about 2 miles from Alqosh, Iraq, 28 miles north of Mosul.
The monastery is named after Rabban Hormizd (rabban is the Syriac for monk) who founded it in the seventh century.
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Plant and they will come!
This is just a record shot (I'd have liked to have gotten more of the wing in focus), as she wasn't for staying still, of the first common blue butterfly to visit my garden last year, after I planted bird's foot trefoil for my 'resident' leafcutter bees, and to attract common blue butterflies.
I was thrilled to watch her lay lots of eggs, which you can see her doing in this photo, all over the bird's foot trefoil ... and what amazing little structures the eggs are too---that's tomorrow's upload!
CN A438 holds at CN Howard with a pair of BCOL dash 9s. CP was having PTC issues and Conrail in Detroit wouldn't accept their train which blocked A438 from being able to leave. Normally this is a turn job that runs Windsor-London-Windsor, but because of the delay they would run out of hours in London that night.
Train: CN A438 with BCOL 4645 (C44-9W) and BCOL 4654 (C44-9W).
CN CASO Spur
Windsor, ON
If flowers had personalities, how would you describe how they feel? For some reason this one seems kind of "accepting". Like here I am, a weed by the side of the road, but I'm happy and that's enough for me I accept my lot in life.
Speaking of lots, did you know Mariah Carey's hubby gave her title deeds for a lot of land as a present last Christmas? When she opened it she said ...... I don't want a lot for Christmas ...
:)
Vous constaterez que je ne suis pas PRO et que ma photo est placée dans plus de 100 groupes. Comment est-ce possible?
La limite de 30 ou 60 groupes pour une même photo a évolué, c'est maintenant à l'administrateur du groupe de décider d'accepter ou non des photos qui pourraient être placé dans 29 autres groupes pour les non pro et 59 pour les pro. Par défaut cette limite est active, l'administrateur doit l'invalider.
Comment savoir si un groupe a activé cette limite ou non? C'est écrit en bas de la page d'accueil du groupe.
Pour les groupes avec limite :
"This group will count toward the photo's limit (60 for Pro members, 30 for free members)"
Pour les groupes sans limite :
"This group doesn't care how many other groups a photo is in"
A titre personnel, je suis contre cette limite. Si vous partagez mon point de vue, je vous invite à visiter ceci : www.flickr.com/photos/159070028@N08/25278249688/in/datepo...
Saint Cyprien, Pyrénées Orientales, France
Yashica T et pellicule Agfa Vista 200 périmée depuis 2007 (10 ans)
Le Yashica T est un compact argentique (un peu ancien) équipé d'un objectif Tessar de Carl Zeiss. C'est l'ainé d'une fratrie de 5 compacts argentique expert.
Développement Kit Tetenal C41 et cuve Jobo CPE2.
Scanner Epson V600
Learn the alchemy
true human beings know.
The moment you accept
what troubles you've been given,
The door will open.
Rumi
pink, white and blue for crazy tuesday # 3 colours
Doug Harrop Photography • July 10, 1986
Eleven miles of Southern Pacific's causeway over the Great Salt Lake were severely damaged by storms that passed through the region in June of 1986. Even though the route was shut down to through traffic, the causeway was teaming with rip rap and ballast trains in a fever pitch to rebuild and return the line to service.
A "Kodachrome" painted GP9E and two SD9E locomotives pull a train of Difco air activated side dump cars through Lakeside, 60 miles west of Ogden, Utah.
Today's forms of money have developed from primitive money, e.g. B. mussels or rice, which were accepted as a means of exchange in business life. Money initially belonged to the cultic and legal sphere and referred to "that with which one can repay or pay penance and sacrifices". Only after the 14th century did it assume its current meaning as a "coined currency". From the middle of the 19th century, the gold standard existed in many countries, promising the exchange of legal tender (coins, banknotes) for a fixed amount of gold. By the 1930s almost all major states had abandoned the gold standard. Instead of such a standard, monetary policy measures were taken by the central banks to ensure price stability.
Partial excerpt from: (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geld#Etymologie)
Geld, auch benannt als:
Cash (englisch für „Bargeld“)
Kies (jiddisch kis, „Geldbeutel“)
Mäuse (jiddisch meus, „Geld“)
Moneten (lateinisch moneta, „Münze“; vgl. engl. money)
Moos (jiddisch und rotwelsch moos, mous (Plural), „Geld“)
Penunze (berlinisch Penunse, von polnisch pieniądze, aus dem Westgermanischen, verwandt mit althochdeutsch pfenning)
Zaster (rotwelsch saster, „Eisen“)
Kohle
Asche
Pulver (gemeint ist Zündpulver; vgl. sein Geld verpulvern, veraltet: verzünden)
Kröten, Mücken
Entwickelt haben sich die heutigen Geldformen aus Primitivgeld, z. B. Muscheln oder Reis, die im Geschäftsleben als Tauschmittel akzeptiert wurden. Geld gehörte anfangs zur kultischen und rechtlichen Sphäre und bezeichnete „das, womit man Buße und Opfer erstatten bzw. entrichten kann“. Erst nach dem 14. Jahrhundert nahm es seine aktuelle Bedeutung als „geprägtes Zahlungsmittel“ an. Ab Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts existierte in vielen Ländern der Goldstandard, bei dem der Umtausch von gesetzlichen Zahlungsmitteln (Münzen, Banknoten) in eine feststehende Menge Gold versprochen wurde. Um 1930 haben fast alle größeren Staaten den Goldstandard aufgegeben. An die Stelle eines solchen Standards traten geldpolitische Maßnahmen der Notenbanken, die eine Preisniveaustabilität sicherstellen sollten.
Teilweise Auszug aus: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geld#Etymologie
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After I finished adding the fender washer and wood extension collar, the Chickadees returned. I was unsure if they'd use the box again since I'd done the work with eggs inside, but after a careful inspection, they did.
At Outlaw Tattoo Co. they Accept Walkens. So, if you have some extra Walkens stop on down to 148 Main Street in Hastings and get you self tatted : ) Christopher Walken is an American actor.
Sunflower Watercolor Painting with Texture
Created with Midjourney
PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters
Retro sunflowers, soft and delicate watercolor paintings, with an aged paper background, featuring a worn-out yet fashionable style. The leaves, with rich details, have a retro charm. High resolution, high detail, high quality, high clarity, high sharpness, high definition, hyper-realistic, hyper-fine, rich in details, hyper-clear focus, extremely detailed.
Texture overlay by French Kiss/Impressionist/High Plains
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Sunflower Magic Challenge #250.0
West Pond, Parsonsfield, Maine.
After a gloomy overcast day with snow flurries we got a slight view of sunlight coming through a crack on the western horizon and we where treated to a bit of color and a nice sun pillar.
A pair of Hummingbirds with Hibiscus flowers
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Good morning flickr friends, Happy Flowery Friday! I hope you all have a wonderful day today. Sending much love and hugs!!! Thank you for all your visits, comments, faves, and invites! You all are the BEST!!!
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Secret #24
Sometimes, I wonder how I got to be where I'm at now.
I'm a fairly humble guy, and i often sit back and wonder why me?
Ever since Jr. High, I was never really a good test taker, and that lived through to the SAT's....i took them twice and combined, only scored an 890. It is what it is, i put forth an effort both times and I just couldn't make it.
I applied to one school..California University of Pennsylvania, its part of the State School System in PA, now, I'm not sure if they just let anyone in, or if they were looking for more of a demographic from Central part of the state (its kinda like the 13th grade of Pittsburgh)
To be honest I'm not sure why I got in. But what came of it, is what makes me glad that i was accepted.
Towards the end of my freshman year, my one professor approached me. now earlier on in the day i was dickin around in class w/ a friend so i thought well i deserve whats about to come to me...i walk into his office and he asked me to be his lab assistant...Little did i know, that this professor was about to become one of my best friends. Thats when i knew i was in the right spot....when he announced who his labby was going to be almost all the professors responded with a "Who? Why? Really?"
...well little did they know but, I caught wind of this, and i was now not only out to impress myself....i wanted to prove these professors wrong, and make a somebody out of myself. From that moment on I changed i could tell, I was given an opportunity, and I knew it would take hard work.
All went well, and then as part of my Labby duties I attended the Advisory Board meeting, cause we were going through accreditation. There I met an industry leader, someone i've only dreamed of talking to, some one we talked about in Class..it was crazy i'm sitting next to this person and i some how got the courage to ask him a few questions...i was intrigued by this cutting edge technology he helped build...he was very polite, and before i knew it we were setting up a position for me at the company he worked for as an intern
...now previously i jokingly talked up this company like "Yeah I want to work there someday"
....well that day was now, i started immediately that summer and have been there since...(2 summers now)...
I've made a name for myself... and thats something i can be proud of.
now i'm starting my last semester, I'm graduating a semester early, and my journey is ending, and ...all the professors are sad to see me leave.
That was like 4-6 secrets in itself, i hope you all took the time to read this, i apologize for its length.
One of two photos taken when I did a late walk to the Mimico Waterfront Park, a part of the Waterfront Recreational Trail in Toronto.
"Alcea is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the hollyhocks. They are native to Asia and Europe. The single species of hollyhock from the Americas, the streambank wild hollyhock, belongs to a different genus." - Wikipedia
I hoped it would feel cooler, but only a bit. Thanks for visiting, enjoy each day #BeKind
Getting as close as I possibly can on a circuit board, harvested from a remote-controlled power outlet whose remote went belly-up, capturing examples of tiny surface-mount devices, possibly resistors. The ruler scale at the bottom is in millimeters.
Taken with the Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens at 5X magnification. At that setting, the lens has to be less than an inch (25.4mm) from the subject, making lighting difficult. The lens and camera were attached to a macro focusing rail, a necessary but very finicky device (more so at extreme magnification) used to move the camera fore and aft to focus. Given my sometimes uncooperative set of hands I have, it was a challenge, indeed.
You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.
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We have had 9 around our table this last week and great family times including a walk to a salt lake about an hour from town with strange looking rocks.
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The Hellenic Air Force were rehearsing for an air show on "Oxi day" (= No-day, Επέτειος του Όχι), commemorating Greece's refusal to accept the ultimatum given by fascist Italy in 1940 during World War II.
Oxi day is commemorated on 28 October.
There were 4,600 F-16 aircrafts built since 1976. Although no longer purchased by the United States Air Force (USAF), improved versions are being built for export. As of 2025, it is the world's most common fixed-wing aircraft in military service, with 2,084 F-16s operational.
Submitted: 28/11/2025
Accepted: 02/12/2025
Published:
- RT (Ireland) 05-Dec-2025
“Accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields"
Kahlil Gibran
The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
(Ploceus castaneiceps)
Leganga - Arusha
Tanzânia
We just returned from about two weeks spent in Tanzania, and I have to say it was by far our worst trip ever. The country, the people, the landscapes, and the birdlife and wildlife in general warrant a return visit — but the guide we somewhat naively chose was an absolute disaster.
A presumptuous, egocentric, narcissistic, arrogant, Trump-supporting, climate-change-denying, constantly self-flattering individual who fancies himself a great photographer (he describes his own photos as "fucking good").
His photos are mediocre, some even out of focus, but for a birder just looking to document sightings, that’s normal, and I accepted it. If only he’d had the humility to simply show us the birds and let us handle the photography. Instead, every time we had a chance to photograph a bird, he’d lecture us on how we should do it—even scolding us for checking our shots on the camera. He never did that himself, using his Nikon D850 (what a waste) almost in point-and-shoot mode (his own words).
He kept insisting he was a photographer and knew all about the importance of light, but every single day, we saw it was pure theory—he had zero practical skills. He’d constantly forget and sulk when we pointed it out. Basically, if the background was blue sky, the light was good; if it was cloudy, the light was bad. That was the extent of his knowledge of light and photography.
On the very first day, his first attempt was taking us to a lake hoping to find an African Black Duck. Well, as our friend A. Guerra would say, ironically, when things go bad, at least we didn’t see it—because the photos would have been a complete disaster. The access to the lake was directly facing the sun, with glare all over the water. It would have been a huge frustration.
At the middle of day, with terrible strong light, he decided show us a colony of Taveta Weavers — only for our disappointment to deepen as they were entirely backlit. When we mentioned the lighting issue, he simply ignored us (something he’d do systematically for as long as we endured him). I had to push through thick vegetation and small water ditches to find a better angle, while he seemed annoyed at how long we took to get a decent shot.
(Another thing that bothered him was us not knowing a species’ name or mispronouncing it.)
But that was just the first day. The following days were a series of unpleasant situations, multiple arguments — the last one shouting — until we gave up on his services (already paid for) and had to scramble for an alternative. I’ll talk about that in future posts.
I won’t name him here, but if you send me a private message, I’ll tell you who he is — so my friends don’t make the same mistake we did.
The only partially positive thing I can say is that, with the help of local guides, he did find the hardest-to-spot species—even if it meant risking our lives, subjecting us to two hours of being thrown around in the vehicle while completely lost off any passable trail (even for a 4x4). Not to mention his dangerously reckless driving on main roads.
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Acabámos de regressar de cerca de duas semanas passadas na Tanzânia e, tenho de dizer, foi de longe a nossa pior viagem de sempre. O país, as pessoas, as paisagens e a avifauna e fauna em geral merecem claramente uma nova visita — mas o guia que escolhemos, de forma algo ingénua, foi um verdadeiro desastre.
Um indivíduo presunçoso, egocêntrico, narcisista, arrogante, Trumpista, negacionista das alterações climáticas, sempre a autoelogiar-se, que se julga um grande fotógrafo (descreve as próprias fotos como “fucking good”).
As fotos dele são medianas, algumas até desfocadas, mas para um observador de aves que só quer registar os avistamentos, isso é normal — e eu aceitava. Se ao menos tivesse tido a humildade de simplesmente nos mostrar as aves e deixar a fotografia connosco. Em vez disso, sempre que havia uma oportunidade para fotografar uma ave, fazia questão de nos dar uma lição sobre como o devíamos fazer — chegando mesmo a ralhar connosco por vermos as fotos no ecrã da câmara. Ele próprio nunca o fazia, usando a NIkon D850 (que desperdício) quase em modo point-and-shot (palavras dele).
Insistia constantemente que era fotógrafo e que percebia a importância da luz, mas todos os dias víamos que isso era só teoria — não tinha qualquer implementação prática. Esquecia-se de coisas básicas e ficava amuado quando lho fazíamos notar. Basicamente, se o fundo era céu azul, a luz era boa; se estava nublado, a luz era má. Esse era o nível do seu "conhecimento" sobre luz e fotografia.
Logo no primeiro dia, a primeira tentativa foi levar-nos a um lago à procura do pato-preto-africano. Bem, como diria o nosso amigo A. Guerra, ironicamente, quando as coisas correm mal, ao menos não o vimos — porque as fotos teriam sido um desastre completo. O acesso ao lago era de frente para o sol, com irritantes reflexos de luz sobre cada molécula de água. Teria sido uma frustração enorme.
A meio do dia, com uma luz fortíssima e péssima, decidiu levar-nos a uma colónia de Tecelões-de-cabeça-ruiva — apenas para a nossa desilusão aumentar ao vermos que estavam completamente contra a luz, já de si péssima devido à hora do dia. Quando mencionámos o problema da iluminação, simplesmente ignorou-nos (algo que passou a fazer sistematicamente enquanto o aturámos). Tive de abrir caminho por vegetação densa e atravessar pequenos regos de água para conseguir um ângulo melhor, enquanto ele parecia irritado com o tempo que demorávamos a conseguir uma fotografia decente.
(Outra coisa que o incomodava era não sabermos o nome de uma espécie ou pronunciá-lo mal.)
Mas isso foi só o primeiro dia. Os dias seguintes foram uma sucessão de situações desagradáveis, várias discussões — a última já aos gritos — até que desistimos dos seus serviços (já pagos) e tivemos de procurar uma alternativa à pressa. Falarei disso em publicações futuras.
Não o vou nomear aqui, mas se me enviarem uma mensagem privada, direi quem é — para que os meus amigos não cometam o mesmo erro que nós.
A única coisa parcialmente positiva que posso dizer é que, com a ajuda de guias locais, ele de facto encontrou as espécies mais difíceis de localizar — mesmo que isso implicasse pôr a nossa vida em risco, sujeitando-nos a duas horas aos solavancos num veículo completamente perdido fora de qualquer trilho transitável (mesmo para um 4x4). Sem falar da condução perigosamente imprudente nas estradas principais.
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Tanzânia (2025) (377)
- All the photos for this order PASSERIFORMES (3553)
- All the photos for this family Ploceidae (Ploceídeos) (114)
- All the photos for this species Ploceus castaneiceps (1)
- All the photos taken this day 2025/04/22 (4)
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Today was sunny. That's the good news. The winds were steady at 20mph, gusting to 30. That makes macro photography a bit of a challenge. Still, that was the calmest the winds have been in several days, so I went out. Some good results, some a bit less so. I liked this one.
Flickr is really screwed up right now. The kids doing Flickr coding right now haven't yet mastered CHECKING THEIR WORK. A number of features -- several related to groups -- have been messed up to the point of unusability. I spend most of my time in groups, so it is troubling.
Plus, though I am indeed using the most recent version of FF, every page gives me an unsupported browser -- please update -- error. Based on the HUNDREDS of postings to the Help forum, it is just a screw up of ponderous proportions. If you are NOT seeing the various problems, I can't even guess why not...though I know most of my contacts do not participate in groups.
If I fall behind in commenting -- every photo page access is a hassle -- I'll try to make it up once Flickr gets its game together YET AGAIN.
The WonderRig Ultra did arrive today. VERY highly engineered gear. Will take some time to dial in...but it is completely wonderful. Probably totally conspicuous consumption, but you only go around once.
If you didn't see it before, this is the WonderRig Ultra: