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1952 Chevrolet Styleline DeLuxe Series KK 2100 Model 2134 Convertible Coupé Customized (Fisher body)
^)(^ SORRY: I have to "slow down" (probably fewer photos, fewer input in groups, fewer comments and slower responses, etc.) for the next coming weeks, because we renovate our house ♫♪
I am very sorry about possible inconveniences ...
Because of a build up of holiday tonnage the SLR opted to run a daylight Eastbound out of Richmond, QUE with 4 Geeps, a slug and a gray SD buried 3 deep. There was quite a following as daylight moves on the SLR with the exception of the South Paris local are the odd snowplow just don't happen. Here No 394 is rolling through Stratford Hollow and always wanted to get an Eastbound here. Another check on the bucket list.
...not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
Jim Watkins
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Please, don't fave and run, you will get yourself blocked.
Edited slightly in Topaz Studio
There is no AI in this image
Cover of If You Like Paintings; A memorial group for Linda Seifried! - Thank you Renee !
A small but beautiful pine and birch forest where I often recharge my batteries. And yesterday, I saw a deer here for the second time. Unfortunately, I had my wide-angle lens on this time—or perhaps fortunately, because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to take this lovely forest photo with the deer in the background.
I think everything happens for a reason. :-)
Ein kleiner aber wunderschöner Kiefern- und Birkenwald in dem ich öfter meine "Batterien" auflade. Und zum zweiten Mal sah ich hier gestern ein Reh. Leider hatte ich diesmal mein Weiwinkelobjektiv drauf - oder vielleicht auch zum Glück, denn sonst wäre mir dieses schöne Waldfoto mit dem Reh im Hintergrund nicht gelungen.
Ich denke, alles hat seinen Sinn. :-)
life goes on, somehow
I'm feeling the flood, the flood of a lot of work.
It feels like a thousand ants under my skin , the blood rushing, the heart running.
I should go out now for a minimum of one hour, a night walk. I should.
But maybe I only dress me for my ergometer...
A december like thia. No silent time.
But I try to walk as much as possible.
I prefer to start work a little later, because the end is alwasys open, every day.
Last night I had a good sleep.
But to do it again, I need to bring down my stress hormones.
Hahaha
An old photon I took a few months after I bought my K10D. It was originally underexposed (black tower). After some simple processing (Shadow/Highlights) using RawTherapee, I was so happy that it brought up the details of both the towers and the colorful sunset cloud.
It seems underexposure is better than overexposure because post-processing can pretty much do nothing if the area is saturated. Still learning ...
Romeo and Ernie were having a serious father & son discussion and Ernie showed remorse for his bad behaviour :) /
Romeo et Ernie etaient plonges dans une serieuse discussion pere-fils et Ernie s'est montre plein de remords pour sa vilaine conduite :)
Take me now, baby, here as I am
Hold me close, try and understand
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe
Love is a banquet on which we feed
Come on now, try and understand
The way I feel under your command
Take my hand, as the sun descends
They can't hurt you now
Can't hurt you now
Can't hurt you now
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us
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Pose by Exposeur - When the Right One Comes Along
...because La Mer is ready to take your picture!
La Mer is wearing Squeaky Monkey and glasses from BHC. Her camera is from American Girl Place.
Just Sitting Here why do you ask? Prissy being a bit sheepish because she isn't supposed to be on the printer, just being a cat, shot in North Carolina.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. In usually make these baubles for others as gifts, but on occasion I make one or two baubles for myself. This is one such bauble.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 20th of December is "sequins", so I thought I would show you this special bauble I chose to make for myself. If you would like to see the other baubles I have made as gifts for friends over the years, you can find them in this album: www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/albums/72157649901152375/. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week's theme, and that it makes you smile!
As this is the last "Looking Close on Friday" before Christmas, I should just like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in the group a very happy Festive Season. May it be filled with happiness and joy for you all.
Each bauble I make is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the large star sequins which are 10mm, the sunburst sequins which are 12 mm and the small gold border sequins which are 2mm and very, very fiddly. The sunburst sequins are French and are known as "éclate de soleil" - "sunbursts". Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because it is a complex pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
... i recently cut my hair for a new style. i'm not sure if i like it or not as it is my first time to have hair dangling on my forehead.. it tickles!.. i think i should get used to it for the sake of a cool change. hihi! =)
...what I call this Katydid because of it's pumpkin-orange colored eyes.
Good morning everyone and Happy Hug-a-Bug Tuesday. Featured today is a short series on the Common Meadow Katydid (Orchelimum vulgare). One of two common Katydids found here locally with the other being the Northern Bush Katydid, of which I'll post a series at a later date.
As for the Common Meadow Katydid, they're more apt to be heard than seen. Even though they are fairly common I rarely see one, especially out in the open, but I never fail to hear them with their constant singing in the fields when I'm out & about.
As for these photos, just three pics with the above being the only one of this particular individual. The two photos in the comment section are of a different Meadow Katydid, which was smaller than the one pictured above. It also had extremely long antennae, even for a Katydid, which you can clearly see in the second photo in the comment section...especially if viewed large.
Almost forgot, both Katydids pictured here are males and body length is about 1.75 inches (45mm) long when fully grown.
As always, don't forget to click on "view previous comments" if you don't see the two additional photos in the comment section. Even better, scroll to them by clicking on the arrow thingy to the right of the above pic. And if you want to any pic in the comment section large all you have to do is click on it where you'll also find the full text describing this species of Katydid.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you are having a truly nice week.
Lacey
ISO400, aperture f/11, exposure .004 seconds (1/250) focal length 300mm
I found the Grebe because I was spending a couple of hours with the small flock of Goldeneye that call this part of the Ottawa River home - or at least their daily feeding spot - during the winter months. They will be off soon, and every winter I try to spend four or five days down on the shore ice along the River while they are here.
This male is beginning to perform the mating display that becomes quite a frequent occurrence right before they depart. After extending his neck, he will bend it back ward along his back, and then do a funny flutter kick and throw his head forward.
There is a part of the Ottawa River, due north of Mud Lake, that has what resembles a railway siding, where trains pull off the main line for rest or repairs. A strip of tree-covered rocks, maybe 150 metres long and ten metres wide, creates the siding. In it, the River runs more slowly, with less of the turbulence of the rapids outside the island strip. The Goldeneye and other visitors make that shallower and calmer water - still open, because it is turbulent enough not to freeze - a place to forage and rest.
They drift with the current from west to east, and when they get to the end of the siding, they fly back up to the western end and drift back down again. This is as good as it gets for winter duck photography here: the birds are active on the water and in their low, noisy flight. And the narrow siding means they are never too far away.
They are very frightened of people though - I have a couple of concealed spots, which freeze over in the winter but are now water or wet ground - and will shorten or alter their drift/fly pattern if people are present.
because there was another boar chasing him. The two had a surprise meeting, neither was aware of the other until they had visuals on each other.
The larger boar had been fishing in his favorite spot when this younger boar approached but the younger guy was quickly chased off and didn't go back.
It was amazing watching how fast this guy was moving.
Tim, Dana and I had been watching the situation unfold from our spot on the other side of the river and were almost expecting to see a physical confrontation but in actuality, we were glad things didn't go that way.
Bears don't go looking for fights. The last thing a bear wants to be in the wild is injured. That can sometimes end in a slow death, or maybe a quick one. But they don't want to do anything that makes them vulnerable so most of the time, they will avoid a physical altercation.
The motion blur in this is from in the camera. I didn't fake it up so to speak. My shutter speed was on the slow side (as you can see from my exif data).
Because the Grand Hotel has adopted a low-price strategy and the booking rate is now rising, the epidemic prevention lighting had come to an end on May 6.
台北グランドホテルは低コスト（台湾国民限定NTD999/一泊＋buffet ）の宿泊方案を採用しており、予約率が大幅に上昇したため、防疫の応援ライトアップが5月6日に終了しました。
今天才得知，前天拍的這個『加油』是圓山飯店在此次防疫打氣點燈活動中最後一次點燈，那一天只有五支腳架，基隆河退潮退得很遠，為了拍攝無石頭的畫面，所以必須站很下面，拍完之後雨鞋都是泥濘的爛泥巴，腳架最底端也是，每次拍完回家就是洗洗刷刷的，沒想到是最後一次防疫點燈紀念版。謝謝steven 4/27 通知這個美麗的攝點，他也最勤奮，拍最多最滿！每次拍完藍調，還四處趕場，紀錄圓山飯店點燈，真是佩服！他只有最後一次缺席，差一點領全勤獎。👍
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"Because I feel that in the heavens above
The angels, whispering one to another,
Can find among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of Mother"...
~Edgar Allen Poe~
Skin: PUMEC - Marina Skin LeL EvoX (Group Gift)
Dress: Just Because - Kathleen Outfit at @UBER Event
Earrings: VIPERA - Elisa Earrings
Hair and Hairbase: Nonnative - Paradiso Ponytail and FRACTIONS Hairbase
just because it isn't 'new' doesn't mean it hasn't got some use-- right??
ANSH scavenger13 "it's getting old"
ODC how does your garden grow
(in the interest of honesty-- it's not my garden)
HSS
Because she's French...
Looking back through archives I came across this shot. Back then I never took the time to post to groups and I think this one deserves better coverage. Shot at an old beach chalet I owned on The Blake Sea, this was one of the first pics I took of my good pal Enaery. Thank you for your friendship, Ena, and for putting up with me ever since. You're a pleasure to work with, and you always make getting the money shot so easy x
Another image of the Chat, because I am so delighted it has thus far survived the winter and I got to photograph it .
As noted on my last post i saw the Chat as it came in to feed. It has always been very wary and I was reluctant to move from my sitting position- but I did as there were many branches between me and the bird and I was shooting between the them . As a result i got a much better view. The blue background is caused by the river flowing below the bank on which i was standing. Luckily the bird was not spooked and stayed awhile
It is now four days later and we have had two heavy snowfalls and it was bitterly cold last night at minus 4 - I sure hope it is still with us. A fitting image to celebrate World Wildlife Day
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On the 16th of January it snowed for the first time this winter in Amsterdam. Because the temperature was around freezing, the snow stayed there for a while. It only got a few centimeters of snow. The best advice is to stay indoors and turn the stove up a bit. Or of course to go outside to take some nice pictures. In addition to the nuisance, the snow also provides a lot of fun for children here in Amsterdam's Jordaan. Snowball fight, make snowmen or go sledding. All fun activities that children do in this beautiful snowy world. Those who think away for a while can imagine themselves in Hendrick Avercamp's world today. The snow was enough for a few hours of uninhibited winter fun in the streets of Amsterdam. Earlier in the afternoon it was still quiet on the gray canals, since the first snow had stuck to the ground by four o'clock, the neighborhood has turned out for an hour of carefree winter entertainment. The chance that the snow will still be there tomorrow morning seems quite small. During the night the snow may turn into rain and during the day it will be about 6 degrees.
This evening I walk in my neighbourhood and made some beautiful photos of a little layer of snow. The virgin white carpet of snow is crunching under my shoes. I began to remember why I love the winters so much. This time around, the canals remained relatively ice-free. The snow is a rare highlight in dark days, especially when you have small children. It is quite difficult to come up with something fun in these Covid lockdown days. After a while, sitting inside gets pretty monotonous for such a young kid. This is a welcome change. When it snows the light and atmosphere is really beautiful. The Old Wester church is right next to Amsterdam's Jordaan district. Leaning gabled houses and the city’s most charming canals. The steep bridges over the canals in Amsterdam are really slippery, especially for cars. The best way to travel in the snow is by bicycle, tram, walking or better by sleds. Photo taken at the Bloemgracht in Amsterdam.
Op 16 januari heeft het voor het eerst deze winter gesneeuwd in Amsterdam. Omdat de temperatuur rond het vriespunt lag, bleef de sneeuw eventjes liggen. Een paar centimeters sneeuw werden het maar. Het beste advies is dan maar om lekker binnen te blijven en de kachel iets hoger te zetten. Of natuurlijk even naar buiten te gaan om wat mooie plaatjes te schieten. De Jordaan is bedolven onder een mooi laagje sneeuw zoals hierboven op de brug op de Bloemgracht. Naast de overlast zorgt de sneeuw ook voor veel plezier bij kinderen hier in de Amsterdamse Jordaan. Sneeuwballen gevecht, sneeuwpoppen maken of sleetje rijden. Allemaal leuke activiteiten die kinderen doen in deze mooie besneeuwde wereld. Wie even wegdenkt kan zich vandaag in Hendrick Avercamps wereld wanen. De sneeuw was voldoende voor een paar uur ongeremde winterpret in de straten van Amsterdam. Was het eerder op de middag nog rustig op de grijze grachten, sinds de eerste sneeuw tegen vier uur aan de grond bleef plakken, is de buurt uitgelopen voor een uurtje onbekommerd wintervermaak. De sneeuw is een schaars hoogtepuntje in donkere dagen, speciaal wanneer je kleine kinderen hebt. Het is in deze lockdowndagen best lastig iets leuks te verzinnen. Binnen zitten wordt na een tijdje best eentonig voor zo’n peuter. Dit is een welkome afwisseling. De kans dat de sneeuw er morgenochtend nog ligt lijkt vrij klein. In de nacht gaat de sneeuw mogelijk over in regen en overdag wordt het dan zo'n 6 graden. Foto gemaakt op de Bloemgracht in Amsterdam.
because "black crested silky flycatcher" is too much of a mouthful.
Casas Adobes Park, AZ
Thanks for taking a look at my images. I certainly appreciate it.
... because I love this subject - cant resist to show this one. taken far away from lake geneve - at lake brombach, germany.
hmmmmmmm not sure at all about this?
well i leave it be here for now, i see already a couple of things i wanna redo about this:)) lol there might be a little noise here and there and the exposure all around is not my best work but i call it an experiment, ok?
the foreground is a sculpture made of a finnish artist and it is called "seven magic points", it is made of iron and the reds on it is rust because it is located so close to the sea:))
PLEASE do not view it large:)) lol
the longexpos are a new thing to me and i only done it a couple of times and this might have been a little to long? i feel i loose alll control when doing these.
but hopefully some of you might like it?
thanks alot for stopping by leaving comments and faves, much appreciated.))
take care and have a lovely weekend:))
hopefully i will be getting out tonight shooting some longexpos by the sea or perhaps some startrails by a lake?
cheers:))
Because darkroom paper is orthochromatic, the colour response isn't what you might expect - the petals of this sunflower are actually yellow and the background should be black ...
"The contemplative journey, because it involves the purification of the unconscious, is not a magic carpet to bliss. It is an exercise of letting go of the false self, a humbling process, because it is the only self we know. God approaches us from many different perspectives: illness, misfortune, bankruptcy, divorce proceedings, rejection, inner trials. God has not promised to take away our trial, but to help us to change our attitudes toward them. That is what holiness really is. In this life, happiness is rooted in our basic attitude toward reality."
- Thomas Keating, The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation