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Thanks to Distressed Jewell for her textures:
This lovely little pointesettia was a gift from dear friends who visited for dinner recently. It was the first sign of Christmas to appear in our home this year. A few other hints of the season are appearing. The outdoor lights are up, the rest of the outdoor decorations will get be tomorrow. Tonight there's a batch of meringues in the oven - early baking to send to our family out west. ODC - red and black.
Rose : Princess Alexandra of Kent (David Austin Roses)
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CarlZeiss Y/CONTAX Planar T*1.4/50
Alpha! This is my first one, my now little used Sony A55. Can't believe I've had my 99 for over two years now!
HMM! Begins with A
with one step outside of your comfort zone :-)
― Shannon L. Alder
HSS!!
daylily, my yard, cary, north carolina
Plan de Turpí, La Ribagorza, Huesca, Aragón, España.
SENDERO BOTÁNICO Y GORGAS DE ALBA (S-1)
Plan de Turpi – Gorgas de Alba – Plan de Turpi
El sendero S-1 del Parque Natural empieza pasado el puente sobre el río Ésera. A los pocos metros del comienzo se remonta una pequeña zona rocosa y unos minutos después la senda se interna en un bosque de pino negro con tejos y abetos. Pasados unos 25 minutos de recorrido se llega al desvío hacia las Gorgas de Alba. Aunque la vuelta se hará siguiendo este desvío, se recomienda continuar el sendero de frente hasta llegar a la pista que conduce a los Baños de Benasque. Desde este punto la senda desciende por un precioso bosque de hayas, hasta alcanzar de nuevo el cruce hacia las Gorgas de Alba.
Ahora sí, se debe tomar ese desvío que desciende hasta un mirador construido sobre unas pasarelas, desde donde pueden contemplarse unas espectaculares vistas de las cascadas. A partir de aquí, se continúa el descenso hacia el punto de inicio por la margen derecha del río donde predominan los abetos y pinos.
BOTANICAL TRAIL AND GORGAS DE ALBA (S-1)
Turpi Plan – Gorgas de Alba – Turpi Plan
The S-1 trail of the Natural Park begins after the bridge over the Ésera River. A few meters from the beginning there is a small rocky area and a few minutes later the path enters a forest of black pine with yews and firs. After about 25 minutes of travel, you reach the detour towards the Gorgas de Alba. Although the return will be made following this detour, it is recommended to continue the path straight until you reach the track that leads to the Baños de Benasque. From this point the path descends through a beautiful beech forest, until reaching the crossroads towards the Gorgas de Alba again.
Now, you must take that detour that descends to a viewpoint built on some walkways, from where you can see spectacular views of the waterfalls. From here, the descent continues towards the starting point along the right bank of the river where fir and pine trees predominate.
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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
Intérieur - extérieur (île de la cité, Paris, décembre 2024)
Multiple frames in the frame and a partial covering of the face, this is the intention that motivated this shot. The man whose face appears is sitting in a café, behind the glass of the latter. The street is reflected on the left part of the image while the interior of the café appears on the central part. It is already the middle of the afternoon, that is to say a moment when the natural light begins to decline, while the artificial lighting begins to be more visible (upper part of the image).
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I was able to get a photographer’s pass at the Cheyenne Rodeo last year, which allowed me to shoot from the ”Pit,“ a dugout with a concrete roof that allows a view of the arena at nearly ground level, a perfect perspective for seeing the action. Shooting with my 300mm f-4 lens I was able to follow the action fairly well and get close enough to fill the viewfinder, though things here move a great deal faster than I am accustomed to and things did not always stay in the viewfinder for long. This is a shot of an event called steer wrestling, or bulldogging. The cowboy must dismount from a perfectly good horse traveling at a pretty good pace to grab a steer by the horns, slow and stop the steer by digging in the heels of his boots in the dirt, and then simply wrestle the 200 to 300 pound steer over off of its feet. Nothing to it. This fellow is just off his horse and is beginning to try to convince the steer to go over. The steer, on the other hand, is not so fond of the idea. This is the beginning of that dance.
CSX L810, the Cartersville Subdivision local, really was the train to get in the 2nd half of 2023, at least for those within a few hours of the area. The first 2 heritage nose jobs debuting on it & the very good & friendly engineer that a lot of us local guys know were just 2 of the reasons. The cherry on top for me at least was when the 4419, one of the few remaining EMDs still sporting the YN2 paint scheme, got assigned to it for the month of October. Between the engineer making sure it lead whenever he was there & a “mystery person” showing some T.L.C to it to make the paint job look as good as it could for being over 20 years old at this point, October of 2023 was a very good time to make the drive to the rather underrated line. Here, we see the first of quite a few photos I’d take during those trips of L810 departing GEO Specialty Chemical in Cedartown after switching it out & pulling a few empties to take back to Cartersville. 10-10-23
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When I think of wild horses I imagine them racing across a chaparral somewhere. I heard that there were several bands of wild horses in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona, and was able to locate some more by luck than anything else. They were not racing around anywhere, though. Rather they were trying to stay cool under some trees quite near a parking lot in a recreation area. They seemed more like homeless horses than wild ones, but it was great to see them just going about their business. There were a couple stallions who were keeping a close eye on me, because there was this foal of about 2 or three weeks and another who I was told was only about a week old. I did not get close enough to stress them, though, instead counting on a long lens to give me a shot of this intimate moment early in the life of this young horse.
Explored 7-10-16; highest position #314
Daylight fades, work ends, people arrive home and lights are turned on. Meals cook, babies cry. Purple hour finds expression in the sky and tints the landscape, a peaceful evening on the Gold Coast hinterland begins.
..... who will get to the strawberries first..... Lo or the squirrels.... I'm betting on the squirrels.....
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
Goethe
(Though I've read that it wasn't Goethe who wrote it)
Well, let's start with Best Harris.
He wasn't a "son of Plymouth" - he was born in South Wales and only arrived in Plymouth in the late 1930s.
He adopted the name "Best" (which was his mother's maiden name) because he thought a double-barrelled name would sound more impressive.
And he can't be credited as an historian. Just a librarian with a creative interest in history and a liking for publicity.
Water was not identified as a source of cholera until Dr John Snow's study of the 1854 outbreak of cholera around the Broad Street pump in London's Soho.
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Last evening at Elk Island NP..
Indian Peaks, Brainard Lake Rec Area, Ward, CO
Landscape photography and the pursuit of beautiful light can be extremely defeating at times. Driving hours and hiking miles all for the conditions to not play out as anticipated. This past weekend I had one of those defeating trips. The sky never cooperated, I drove really far, and the hike was tougher than I expected. On top of that, I lost my sunglasses along the trail. I felt defeated by the mountains that evening. A day later, the forecast looked promising for sunrise in the Indian Peaks. I had scouted this location a couple weeks prior and had been waiting to get a chance at sunrise with it. After a few restless hours of sleep, I hit the road and headed for the mountains once again. I arrived at the trailhead with an optimistic mindset. I had been absolutely denied a couple nights before and I didn't want to be let down again. The sky was looking promising though with clear skies to the east and a bunch of moody clouds above the mountains. I set out for my spot. As I was about a quarter mile in, my headlamp caught a reflection in the bushes about 50 feet from me. After a second, I realized that the reflection was 2 eyeballs staring at me... I looked around and saw about 3 or 4 more pairs of eyes all around me. I carry a small reindeer bell intended for hiking in the dark, so I continued to ring that as I cautiously continued along the trail. I kept looking behind myself in fear that one of those sets of eyes could be a mountain lion. After a few look backs, there was nothing following me and I pushed on. Once I arrived at my spot, I could see the horizon still looking promising and I found my composition and waited. Finally, the light show began! After patiently waiting what felt like all summer for a morning like this, I jumped with joy for the light I was witnessing. As the show continued the light changed from pinks to oranges to a yellowish green. Just as I thought it couldn't get any better, a large rainbow appeared over the mountains... I wasn't able to capture that in a way that portrayed how beautiful it actually was. After about a half hour of an incredible show, the sun climbed up into the clouds and that was my cue to pack up and head home filled with joy.
After making it back to the car, I knew that I would be passing by an area that was ideal for moose. So I got my camera out of my bag and threw on the long lens to have in the seat next to me. Sure enough, as I came around the corner, there they were, 4 big moose enjoying the morning, grazing in the willows. Not far down the road, I found 4 more, couldn't believe it. An incredible sunrise, and 8 moose. Visiting this location over and over allowed me to create some spectacular images. It's the failures that make these mornings so amazing.
If you made it this far reading this, I appreciate you and hope you enjoyed the story behind my image. Landscape photography is a challenge and I love every part of it.
I'll probably post some moose shots later, but if you wanna check out the big guys beforehand, go check em out on my website.
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It's done.
It's done, it's weird. It's so so strange. Want to hear how I feel about it; go here.
Thank you everyone ever for your constant support, and encouragement in this almost impossible project. <3
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Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity
Chichester Cathedral in West Sussex is a fine example of Norman and English Gothic architecture and is the seat of the Diocese of Chichester.
The seat of the Bishop was relocated from Selsey in 1075 and construction of the cathedral was begin shortly after being consecrated in 1108.
The cathedral is unique in England as the only one that has a separate Campanile (Bell Tower) built in the early 15th century.