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I've probably been in Thailand too long to think that the water of Emerald Lake would be anything other than freezing cold. Call me soft but even though it was a really hot day I only lasted a few seconds paddling in the lake
For this to make any sense it would be helpful to have a quick look at my previous picture of the Fire Station coffee shop (and art centre).....
I have photographed the exterior of this building on three occasions now. It is a street photographers dream. Yesterday Kerry enquired in the comments, if I had had a coffee? Well I felt a little guilty that I hadn’t and thought I would rectify that today.
There is currently an exhibition of sculpture by Johannes Von Stumm on in the Fire Station. I took my mother (who is an artist in her own right) to have a look around. I bought our coffees and then surveyed the artwork.....I’m always attracted to the price tags first.....One tag read £42,000 and another read £51,000. Beautiful artwork but not really my cup of tea (or price bracket)......
The pictured bronze was sat by the bar and caught my eye. I went over and looked at it. It was a completely different style of work to the other sculptures. Much more up my street. I enquired of the barman if this was made by Mr Von Stumm as well? .....
He said No. One of the bar staff had made it!!!!!
Heck there are some very talented people around.....
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a bit of sadness 13.05.2021 by tonnyfroyen.com
This one is from Rose Garden on roof of Molde Town Hall
Most of my Rose photographs are captured in and around the city of Molde. Molde is the second largest city in the county of Møre og Romsdal, lies along the shores of the Romsdalsfjord in Western Norway.
The official, and also most common, nickname for Molde is The City of Roses or Rose City. The town's largest collection of roses is to be found at the Town Hall roof
A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing, or trailing, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows and reds.
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Last year's spring was so different to this year's in so many ways, it was a lot wetter hence the pond / lake here. It is not a permanent feature but I think it added to the scene. Thi was taken in an area known as The Dog Mills, Bride just north of Ramsey. This is looking south and if you look large you should be able to see Snaefell on the sky-line. Its the bit with two masts.
We may look a bit different but deep down we are copy and paste versions of each other. We live inside each others heads and even finish each others thoughts regularly. I love you bb.
A bit further up along Stanger Gill from the last shot, this sloping rock caught my eye. Surely it deserves an official name on the map? Couldn't see one though.
By this point, the cloud was starting to lower and the wind was picking up, especially after leaving the shelter of the northern slopes of Rosthwaite Fell.
52 Weeks of 2019
Week 38: Get pushed
Category: Creative
The Brief:
The idea of the 'get pushed' theme is that each member of the group picks another member of the '52 weeks of 2019' group who he or she is going to challenge. Browse through the photo stream of that member and find an area of photography that is hardly present in his/her stream.Then give that member a short assignment in that area for him or her to work on next week (week 38).
Thanks to EricNearDetroit for pushing me to do an industrial abstract!
ODC - Repeating Pattern
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The 'oysterlings' are a bit tricky. C. cesatii has quite different spores when compared to C. variabilis but after that it gets harder.
... or Sheep's-bit Scabious (Jasione montana) in coastal cliff grassland at Lea Mount, Dawlish, Devon, England.
Not a photo from today as it was rainy and cloudy all day. Heidi is in a bad mood, but the rain is very welcome. Spring has been too dry and warm here.
Anyway, this flower is called bugle (Ajuga reptans) and according to Wikipedia it "has been used in traditional Austrian medicine internally as a tea for the treatment of disorders related to the respiratory tract." I'm glad I decided to read a bit more before stocking up on Ajuga reptans. According to German Wikipedia it's only good for diarrhea, and given the big difference in symptoms I stopped looking further into it 😄
A different individual to the first one I posted, found lower down the slopes. Biggish crop as he was a bit of distance away, across a bramble patch.
Карета подана:уж кони бьют копытом
От нетерпения,не слушаясь удил!
Былого счастья не вернуть:давно забыты,
Кем был любим когда-то и кого любил!
Карета подана,но если до удара
Последнего остался миг всего один,
Пока течёт вино,пока звенит гитара,
До той поры судьбы не раб,а господин!..........................................................................................
The carriage is ready:the horses are already kicking their hooves
From impatience, not obeying the bit!
You can 't bring back your former happiness:long forgotten,
Who was loved once and who loved!
The carriage is served, but if before the blow
There was only one moment left of the last one,
While the wine is flowing, while the guitar is ringing,
Until then, fate is not a slave, but a master...!
Wild Dogwood Blooms this tree is growing in the woods, pretty wild but holding it's own, a bit thin because of a late freeze, shot in North Carolina.
A bit of blue skies popped through on Thursday afternoon, during our winter interlude! Temps were in the upper 50s when I shot this and it back in the low 20s now, and that's were it's going to stay for awhile Another Polar Vortex is here! Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
It's a bit tiring to walk up to the ruined fortress of Thessaloniki but then you can enjoy the great views of the city.
This male wood duck was a bit agitated because an Anhinga was sitting on the top of the palm where the Wood Ducks had established their nest. He began to fly toward the nest, apparently hoping to drive the Anhinga away, but gauged its size and thought better of it. This image shows his decision to turn away. There’s nothing like a strong maternal instinct. The hen, after waiting for what seemed an interminable period of time, finally had the courage to fly right under the Anhinga, straight into the next. That was no small feat. The opening of the palm was small and when she entered it when it wasn’t encumbered by a big old Anhinga, she would awkwardly land on the lip of the palm and sometimes fall when getting inside. Good Mom! Just to give the Anhinga’s side of the equation, this palm was its normal perch used to dry off its wings, long before these annoying Wood Ducks showed up. Why should he leave, he was there first! Anyway, the whole episode gave me and several other photographers a lot of entertainment as we watched the nesting play out. In the end, as I previously posted, a mixed brood of Wood Ducks and Black-bellied Whistling Ducks made it into the world. Small chicks lead a perilous existence and have hopefully survived. Momma Wood Duck has kept them secreted away and to my knowledge they’ve been out of sight since the hatching. Good luck little guys! (Aix sponsa) (Sony a1, 70-200 lens with a 1.4 extender shot at 269mm, f/5.6, 1/3200 second, ISO 1600)