Binnalong Bay, Bay of Fires, Tasmania

A pair of battered zebras (CN 4787 & CN 4724) lead a transfer into the Port of Montreal.

Mecosta County

170th Ave.

The southern coast of Louisiana where wherever you look, damage caused by nature's immense fury is evident in this form or that.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy....Dalai Lama.

Met this old lady struggling with big boulders to clear pathway so others can walk unobstructed, requested her to pose and she happily obliged and made my day.

🎵🎵 Nelly, St. Lunatics

( Batter Up ) 🎵🎵

| ANATOMY | CZ SLIM |

◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎

Accessories:

Crucis Earrings by Guwopp

Superkilla HUMAN EvoX Earrings by RAWR!

Alien Runners M2 by GUTCHI

Body:

Kario Body by INITHIUM

Logan Head by LeLUTKA

Pose:

Original Pose by Jake

Location:

Original Backdrop by Jake

◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎

[KINDEX]: FLICKR | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM

◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎

Found myself in Virginia Beach this week with Jose spinning off the coast. The waves churning the surf and battering the Virginia Beach pier were pretty impressive.

©2017 AP Gouge Photography

All Rights Reserved

A male Common Brown Butterfly (Heteronympha merope) looking a little rough around the rear edges, takes a break among the Agapanthus.

HD PENTAX-D FA 150-450 f4.5-5.6

Porthleven, Cornwall

Sat 8th Feb 14

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges — battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood. Billy Graham

~happy battered fence friday~

After visiting Húsavík and Goðafoss in the north of Iceland, we really wanted to drive south to the amazing Aldeyrafoss, but since it was one of the few days with rain, we decided to skip it and instead try to reach the famous seastack Hvítserkur in the blue hour. We knew that the drive would take more than 3 hours, but if Google Maps is right, we should be able to see Hvítserkur in the last faint light of the day. After 2 and a half hours of driving, we turned right onto a gravel road that got more and more bumpy along the way. Moreover, it started to rain and got increasingly dark, but since the visibility was still pretty good we kept speeding over all those bumps with the allowed 80 km/h, passing only a few lonely houses and farms along the way.

We eventually reached the parking lot, and as we got out of our camper van, we noticed that not much of the car’s white color was visible as it was splattered all over with dirt. Since it was already late and the weather was pretty bad, there was only one other car in the parking lot which was leaving when we arrived. So we hurried to get to the viewpoint on the cliff, and for a moment we really thought about going down to the beach, but due to the sketchy “trail” down and the extremely strong winds we decided to stay up there. We then set up our tripods and I really wasn’t sure if I can take my hands off the tripod without it flying away. My girlfriend and I then held each others tripod while the other mounted the camera on it. We kept the tripod as low to the ground as possible and tried some long exposures, but soon found that the wind was so strong that even shorter exposures of only a few seconds resulted in blurry images. To make things worse, the intensity of the rain increased, but we stayed out there and waited for the brief moments of calm where I could capture the only sharp image of the evening. To make the foreground a little more interesting, I then blended in the water from a blurry exposure of 13 seconds, which was nowhere near enough to smooth out the water.

Battered by the Icelandic winds and slightly soaked by the rain, we returned to the camper van and both hoped that we got a least one sharp image on our SD cards. Finally back in the car and protected from the elements, I looked up the way to the nearest campsite and my girlfriend then told me that she remembers an accommodation right next to the Hvítserkur parking lot. Since we had to drive by there anyway, we stopped and had a look, but the lights in the house were already out and not a single person was to be seen. I then checked booking.com and found this accommodation, but there seemed to be no room available. However, there was a phone number listed and so I asked my girlfriend if I should try calling them. She was a little hesitant since it was already 10:30 pm, but I figured they don’t need to answer the phone or probably already have their phones turned off if they don’t want to be bothered by late requests. So I gave it a try and a super-friendly Icelander picked up the phone and said: “Sure, there is still a room available! Where are you?” We were actually standing right in front of the house and 2 minutes later he came out of the house across the street, greeted us and showed us the rooms. We were so happy that we had found a nearby place to stay and especially enjoyed the luxury of a spacious room (compared to our camper van), took a hot shower and fell asleep very quickly in the comfortable bed.

The next morning, we both somehow hoped for an epic sunrise, but the sky was covered with clouds, the winds were still brutal and rain was pouring down. So it was with a heavy heart that we left this beautiful and remote place to head to the Snæfellsnes peninsula, and despite the far from ideal conditions, I am very happy about this picture because it captures the memories of another great adventure in the land of fire and ice. I hope you like it too!

Heavy rain overnight

Icy shoreline in a drenching rain near St. Joseph.

Kelly, WY

Lyme Regis, Dorset

- Kyrkö mosse II

- Bus at the Car graveyard

- Zum Googeln:

Bilkyrkögård Kyrkön mosse in Ryd

oder: BILKYRKOGÅRDEN

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

breezeway: abandoned barracks

Eagle Field, CA

red and lime-gelled strobes; lots of xenon flashlight

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. Pope Paul VI

~happy renewing fence friday~

Rouge B767 stepping on the runway for an early morning departure at Trudeau International Airport (CYUL)

Twisted and warped by the harsh weather of Patagonia, a southern beech tree frames the famous Cuernos del Paine mountains during an autumn sunset in Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park.

A two exposure focus stack.

Puzzles and Prints: tom-schwabel.pixels.com

Facebook: @tomschwabelphotography

Instagram: @tomschwabelphotography

This is a copyrighted image with all rights reserved. Please don't use this image on websites, blogs, facebook, or other media without my explicit permission. See profile page for information on prints and licensing.

A much anticipated return to Coldwater Cove was overshadowed by dreary conditions the morning we made our stop.

I had to keep my disappointment in check as I worked with what light we were given and then pull something out in post.

Information & Credits are on the blog post - rissasecondlife.blogspot.com/2018/11/batter-up.html

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and fujinon 55mm f2.2 screw-mount lens, with helicoid adapter

=====================================================

my review of this lens: www.aarondesigns.org/Fujinon55mmf22Review/

Padley 19112021

This warm summer is coming to an end...

Perhaps, one of last dragonflies I will see this year...

An exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The third image in this series from Porthcawl. Just to give some perspective the lighthouse at the end of the pier is some 5 metres or so tall, so not particularly large by any means but it also gives a sense of scale to these mighty waves crashing onto the breaker. It always does astound me just how much punishment man made objects can sometimes take!

Splash zone pounding of the Kaiwi coast dissolves volcanic tuff, erodes basalt, and shatters surging waves into spray. A favorite habitat for opihi.

A fairly rare variant of the Silver-washed Fritillary, this female was a bronze-green colour.

Chevy 3600 interior

Remains of a shipwreck on the coast of Chañaral island.

Euplagia quadripunctaria.

This is the last image that I took at this spot on Tuesday night. Didn't have time to do a multiple exposure but still happy with how this one has come out.

NS GP38-2 5240 has seen it's share of service and neglect, but it's still useful in this April 2019 scene at McDonough, Georgia.

Had leftover pancake batter from the day before and made some really great crepes!

I had no idea that the batter get so much better after some 16 hours in the fridge!

Instead of jam, I made a chantrelle stew on sour cream, spring onion, chives, japanese soy sauce and Umami.

Simply delicious!

From the looks of this iceberg it must have had a long traumatic set of experiences during its multi-decade journey from the top of the Greenland icefield, down the Jakobshavn glacier and out the Illulissat Icefjord to where I photographed it in Disko Bay on an overcast day.

03/10/2023 www.allenfotowild.com