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Kara asked us to make a pastsecret card to put inside our life story box. it didn't HAVE to be a secret, but that's the general idea. Sometimes it's good to just get your feelings out there.
I asked our guide, Samson what was the most dangerous situation he had ever been in while being a guide in Tanzania for 17 years. He described a situation where an elephant charged the land rover and told us that the only way to handle the situation was to charge back because you could not back up fast enough and the elephant could flip the car over. He reassured us that it had only happened once in 17 years and it was very, very rare so I shouldn't worry. Well, not more than 20 minutes later, a group of elephants walked by behind our car and a group walkedt in front and suddenly the last female in front, turned, raised her ears, started trumpeting and charging towards us. Samson immediately, put the car in gear and charged back. The elephant ended up tearing the grill of the vehicle and denting the iron bar. We were safe, but it was very scary but it was something I will never forget!
Guess what, Daisy....I've got a big red ball that I know from experience will fit perfectly in that open mouth....so if you know what's good for you, you will keep it shut. 😉
Shot a few weeks back. It was a cold evening and the ground was either covered in ice or frost. I was extremely careful when walking around.
I have posted shots from almost this angle before, and some comments have been on the lighted gate you see in red. I have tried to tone it a bit down during processing.
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one pill makes you larger
and one pill makes you small
and the ones that mother gives you
don't do anything at all
- jefferson airplane, white rabbit
inspired by the illustrations from alice's adventures in wonderland :)
I asked the owner of the garden in which this plant grows. He said he does not know what it is. Google does not seem to know either. I did a Google Image Search based on an upload of my photo. It produced nothing even close.
The plant seems to produce just one huge leaf that lasts and lasts, or sometimes two that are a little smaller. It is a perennial. I have seen it come up in spring in this spot year after year. Insects do not tend to chew on the leaf.
Can anyone help?
Update 1 - The technical term for leaves like this is "peltate."
It means "having the petiole (stem) attached to the lower surface instead of the margin." The only common example I can find is the leaf of the nasturtium, but nasturtium leaves don't look like this.
HUGE UPDATE - Thanks to Flickr (and regular) friend, Thomas B, we now know that this is a special kind of Pestwurz (DE) or Butterbur: (Petasites hybridus) with almost circular leaves, each on a central stem.
AUNTIE DOGMA'S GARDEN SPOT has a fascinating write up on Petasites hybridus, including its medicinal uses:
auntiedogmasgardenspot.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/butterbur...
NB - Shot at f/22 at a full-frame 35mm camera equivalent focal length of 51mm (a so-called normal lens). This gave me lots of depth of field and kept the whole leaf in focus.
Location: A raised, private front-yard garden, next to a public sidewalk. Riehen BS Switzerland.
In my album: Dan's Leafscapes.
Like the title says, "ask and you shall receive." I've had some requests for more Monterey photos. This WILL be the last one I upload; the others that I have just aren't that good. Don't want to upload something I'm not 100% satisfied with. Anyway, it's self explanatory...Veyrons. Please leave a comment/fave if you like it. Please do not use/post elsewhere without my prior consent. Thank you!
Buy print here: 500px.com/photo/2009303
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I've decided to do the 100 Strangers project again. I half heartily started the project over a year ago but I quickly lost steam because it was so far out of my comfort zone. I have been inspired to start it again by my friend Bean. He is using his Pentacon Six TL for all of his shots and I think his set has a great feel to it. I'll be using my Hasselblad to complete my set. I like that when I approach people the camera gives us something to talk about. In this case Pablo stopped me on the street because he saw the camera. I asked him to be part of my project and he agreed. Pablo is an aspiring musician and was handing out copies of his reggae album on the corner of Hollywood and Highland.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Group Page.
Ask a Woman on a Date...Featuring Shey and Swank with Paisley Daisy, Semi-Precious, Incendia Outdoors
Blog:
diamondswithjewel.blogspot.com/2016/02/ask-woman-on-datef...
We all can use some help. Lakes, mountains, clouds and sky and all of nature too.
The original title for this had "divine" spelled as "devine" which seems to be wrong. So here it is with a new corrected title.
It's funny, if anyone were to ask me "Anna, what style of photography is your favorite?", which no one ever does, they might be surprised to find out that I'm often drawn to styles completely different from my own. That's not to say I don't like my own stuff (sometimes), but it isn't typically what catches my eye as "oh wow" in other people's streams.
So sometimes I ask myself "Anna, if you like Other People's styles so much better, why don't you try to do more stuff like that yourself?", and usually the answer is pure laziness and habit. But in the spirit of exploration and learning, I've been trying to branch out into doing new things, like using that nifty fifty lens for things besides standard portraits and shooting wide open, and stitching multiple wide-open shots together for the "Brenizer Method" bokeh panorama look (7 or 8 vertical frames stitched here).
Of course, be careful what you try and wish for. Now I'm wishing I hadn't gone with conventional Flickr wisdom of shooting wide open and instead stopped down from 1.4 a bit! Oregon's Painted Hills are just a little too out of focus for my taste here and I'd have shot at 2.0 or 2.8 or something were I to do it over. (Not likely to happen soon, since it took me ages to get out to the Painted Hills in the first place, considering they're 5-6 hours from my house and in the middle of nowhere.)
But hooray for not staying stuck in a rut. And crossing places off your travel destination list. And not stepping on rattlesnakes fellow tourists informed you were close by.
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south.kristen suggested that I do a Q&A, so I did. Ask away. I’ll answer any question within reason.....
I also can’t answer right away, because I got to do homework. Ugh...ah whatever it’s all easy anyways
ASK-21 de Alexander Schleicher, despegue remolcado 25.
Alexander Schleicher ASK-21 on tow. Take off runway 25.
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'Tis the season for giving and we packed a special advent calendar for our group members! How does this work you ask? Great question! Every day there will be something special waiting for you to unwrap in our mainstore. Head over to the front desk and click the advent calendar to receive your free daily gift starting Dec 1-24th. One gift per person and don't miss a single day 'cus you won't be able to get past days gifts
All the gifts will make every day feel like Christmas!
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لن أسقط من أعين الناس ِلـ أبرهن
للبعض. جاذبيتي ..!
فـ لستُ تفاحة نيوتن.
التي تهاوت من الأعلى لـ تمنح غيرها
شرف ..
{لإكتشآف }
Four candy-pink, Ranunculus, beauties.
Persian buttercup (Ranunculus asiaticus) is a perennial plant that can grow to be a foot and a half tall. They have blooms that resemble roses, with simple , like HERE, or branched stems.
The petals are often highly lustrous, some species are popular ornamental flowers in horticulture, with many cultivars selected for large and brightly coloured flowers.
What got me 'in' to 'flower-photography', was that I was fascinated by ‘light’ and wanted to know more about lighting...
That was 27 years ago, started with painting and evolved into photography. Flowers seemed the perfect subject matter, because of their different colours, shapes, textures, great variety and 'characters', I'd had many a garden, grown my own, so, I started out with an advantage, I knew about flowers...
I found a niche in the market, for 15 years now people have been 'raving' about them, asking me how I 'do' it? Copying, imitating and stealing, photos, words and even titles. They say it is the highest ‘accolade’ for an artist? LOL.
There is NO magic formula, each flower is unique and treated as such! I do NOT consider myself a 'flower-photographer' but a a photographer who knows how to use lighting well...
Glad you enjoy them.
Giving my flowers SOUL? My Soul Flowers on youtube and Studio Flowers 2011
Why not take a few minutes, click on the links, sit back and relax, enjoy the beauty, you'll feel replenished?
thank you for your visit, so very much appreciated, Magda, (*_*)
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Someone asked " Do you ever decompress at all between maid assignments on a given day? and I responded - "Well, sometimes I will take a walk in the park before I start the next house."
and THEY responded " Wait - you said you track like 8.5 to 10 miles each day inside these houses scurrying around up and down stairs.....and to RELAX - you go for a WALK?!
"Ask, Believe, Receive."
Practice piece using techniques from "Letter Love 101" and "Artful Alphabets" with Joanne Sharpe.
Faber Castell Pitt Brush Markers and Sharpie markers.
Hang out long enough and you start to become each other…just ask these galaxies.
In Webb’s latest image (shown at right here), two galaxies in the process of merging are twisting each other out of shape. Bright tendrils of star-forming regions connect their two glowing cores. These star-forming regions are particularly bright in infrared light, the wavelengths that Webb specializes in.
Read more:
www.nasa.gov/image-feature/vice-president-harris-french-p...
This image: Here are complementary Hubble & Webb views of this galactic pair. While Hubble shows the merger in visible light (left), Webb’s image shines in infrared (right).
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans; the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Image description: Side-by-side comparison of two merging spiral galaxies as seen by the Hubble and Webb telescopes. Each view is labeled. In both images, the two galaxies form a bean-like shape together, with the more distorted galaxy above and to the left of the other. The background is black, and many tiny distant galaxies dot the scene. On the left, Hubble’s image shows the galaxies in white, with faint blue swirls of star formation and reddish brown dust. There is a bright star with four diffraction spikes above the galaxies surrounded by a pale arc of dust. On the right, Webb’s image shows the same galaxies in blue, as well as much brighter, clearer spiral tendrils of star-forming regions in orange-pink. To the right of the top galactic core, faint diffraction spikes stretch out of a particularly bright star-formation clump. The same star above the galaxies has a set of eight diffraction spikes that are much shorter than in Hubble’s view, and the arc of dust around it is more transparent.