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Well, to clarify, the room is our kitchen, and this view is looking out toward the backdoor stoop. Depending on which way you look from this window you'll usually see our camellia bush, or the fence that separates our deck from the driveway.
A few months ago my sister bought some flowers to spruce things up a bit. And now we love being able to look out and see a variety of potted plants with their bright welcoming colors!
However, with recent overnight temps dropping down to and below freezing, the flowers are starting to fade a bit, so I decided to grab a few shots of these while we still have a view.
Another wonderful place at Hoyt Arboretum, the Redwoods trail.
Yesterday I needed some fresh air to clarify my mind and I found more than that at this park.
This trail is amazing, imagine walking there surrounded by Redwoods, Sequoias and the birds singing.
Then I found those words: Forest is for...rest, oh yes at least that works for me.
Taken with my new lens, a 50th birthday present to myself. Of course, I'm not now sure how much chance I'll get to use it for a while. I won't be driving to Venus Pool again yet, now the rules have been clarified...
Venus Pool nature reserve, Shropshire.
I cloned out the buildings and slightly clarified this but it's otherwise as is. It's ugly to be out there in the cold but it's so stinking beautiful!
An overhead view that helps to clarify that main floor layout. There is a driveway and main entrance on the upper left side of the model. This leads to the lobby of the tower, which then allows access to the single-story section at the back.
You can also see the sun-screens, terraces, and hedge at the lower right area. Break-out spaces.
Here, it finally depicts how the surfboards define the individual floors of the tower--and the overall skyline 'profile' of the building. Plus, you'd have some awesome sky terraces at the 'bow' and 'stern' of the floor plates!
Photography by YinYang
On Saturday I read that interesting essay on Brown Falcons written by David in his blog birdsaspoetry.com/2024/04/13/saturday-evening-post-the-va...
and felt rather sorry that I saw the raptors only occassionally; definitely not often enough to feel comfortable while identifiying some species.
Come Sunday and the first bird I see on a verge of The Pines Fauna and Flora Reserve is this Collared Sparrowhawk!
At first I thought it was a Brown Goshawk but then, alerted by the long middle toe, I dug deeper...
(Accipiter cirrocephalus)
Identity clarified with ABID - Collared Sparrowhawk vs Brown Goshawk
No..your eyes are perfectly fine.. it is blurry because of the rain..
This photostream has been mostly beaches and let me clarify that I don't live there (i just wish). I actually live in the busy part of the metro and this view is my usual commute. You cant imagine gow crowded Manila is. I wanna do street photography but being the introvert that I am, I don't have the courage to do so. Tips will be appreciated 😅
(Note: Hey Carl! We have trains! I hope I gave it some justice)
The view from Glastonbury Tor
Somerset
England
LGG4 Smartphone
Glastonbury Tor is a hill at Glastonbury in the English county of Somerset, topped by the roofless St Michael's Tower, a Grade I listed building. The whole site is managed by the National Trust, and has been designated a scheduled monument.
The conical hill of clay and Blue Lias rises from the Somerset Levels. It was formed when surrounding softer deposits were eroded, leaving the hard cap of sandstone exposed. The slopes of the hill are terraced, but the method by which they were formed remains unexplained. Artefacts from human visitation have been found, dating from the Iron Age to Roman eras.
Several buildings were constructed on the summit during the Saxon and early medieval periods; they have been interpreted as an early church and monks' hermitage. The head of a wheel cross dating from the 10th or 11th century has been recovered. The original wooden church was destroyed by an earthquake in 1275, and the stone Church of St Michael built on the site in the 14th century. Its tower remains, although it has been restored and partially rebuilt several times. Archaeological excavations during the 20th century sought to clarify the background of the monument and church, but some aspects of their history remain unexplained. The Tor is mentioned in Celtic mythology, particularly in myths linked to King Arthur, and has a number of other enduring mythological and spiritual associations.
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It happened again. This photograph is mine.
In the past they attributed the photograph to Henri Cartier-Bresson (the master was already dead at that time), to my friend Rinzi Roco Ruiz and yesterday someone thought to be a photo made by Tatsuo Suzuki.
I'm sorry to disappoint them but this photo was made by a certain Alex Coghe in October 2011 when busy in Los Angeles, California for the competition/exhibition You Are Here. It is part of a mini project that I proposed in the gallery think Tank in Fashion District, DTLA.
Now I know that when it comes to #streetphotography many have so many certainties, maybe even that Alex Coghe can't make a photo like that, but I did it.
And this is also the reason there is another big part of humanity into street photography that consider my work pretty good. To the point that as well as selling many books and prints, I have students coming to my workshops from any part of the world.
For someone is a mystery this fact. Yet while they were still playing with poop I took this picture.
The Cathedral of Seville is built on the old aljama mosque of the city, this shows the power that one culture exercises over another when it is conquered. This fact makes its plan different, facing Mecca and not Jerusalem, that is, facing south instead of east. It should be clarified that Mecca is oriented at 10o from Seville and not at 86o as the old mosque is oriented, this is due to the fact that in Al-Andalus the mosques had to be oriented towards the south quadrant and not towards the east, as the Christian churches did. When the Cathedral Chapter commissioned the design of the Gothic Cathedral, it stated verbatim that it wanted a Cathedral that everyone who saw it would take for crazy. For this, 5 naves were created that covered the 116 by 76 meter rectangle occupied by the Almohad mosque, this results, unlike what was usual in the great European Gothic Cathedrals, a hall plan with a Latin cross marked in height and in width by the central naves and the transept. This hall plan also results in the absence of an ambulatory at the head, which ends in a straight line like the wall of the old mosque. Later the Royal Chapel would be added, which is a Renaissance apse, but it does not really correspond to the Gothic company. In the naves of the Gospel and the Epistle, which are the lateral naves, there are many chapels. The 60 pillars support 68 ogive vaults, highlighting those of the transept and central nave with their star shapes. Instead of placing a clerestory, a continuous balcony was chosen along the main nave in order to be able to wander around the temple without being seen. Located in the central nave, in order from the feet, are the Retrochoir, the Choir, with two organs, the Transept, the Main Altar, the Back of Altar and the Royal Chapel.
A Catalunya els panellets són la menja típica de Tots Sants. No se n'ha arribat a aclarir l’origen exacte. El fet que siguin aliments de llarga durada els lliga amb el concepte d’eternitat.
En Cataluña los "panellets" son la comida típica de Todos los Santos. No se ha llegado a aclarar el origen exacto. El hecho de que sean alimentos de larga duración los relaciona con el concepto de eternidad.
In Catalonia "panellets" are the typical food of All Saints Day The exact origin has not been clarified. The fact that they are long-lasting foods links them to the concept of eternity.
In Catalogna i "panelletti" sono l'alimento tipico del Giorno dei Santi. L'origine esatta non è stata chiarita. Il fatto che essi sono prodotti di lunga durata li riferisce al concetto di eternità.
This is for photographic purposes only, I’d like to clarify for the record that I never dump my used tea bags in the sink.
The peony or paeony is a flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae. Peonies are native to Asia, Europe and Western North America. Scientists differ on the number of species that can be distinguished, ranging from 25 to 40, although the current consensus is 33 known species. The relationships between the species need to be further clarified.
Most are herbaceous perennial plants 0.25–1 metre (1–3 ft) tall, but some are woody shrubs 0.25–3.5 metres (1–11 ft) tall. They have compound, deeply lobed leaves and large, often fragrant flowers, in colors ranging from purple and pink to red, white or yellow, in late spring and early summer. The flowers have a short blooming season, usually only 7–10 days.(Wikipedia)
Hallo Hallo My Sweeties! ❤️, I came to torture them a bit, with this future product spoiler, cof cof, it really took me quite a while doing all this, but for now I'll leave you with this beautiful image, from the wonderful anime "My Dress Up Darling" ❤️
Let me know if you would like to see the process of this image, as well as if you want to know what things I used.
(I CLARIFY THAT MANY THINGS IN THIS IMAGE WERE DRAWN BY ME, I CHANGED CLOTHES THAT HAD SIMILAR THINGS TO THE CHARACTERS)
You probably have come across this term. Wikipedia would give you a variety of definitions and explanations. From the perspective of the UK and, important to clarify, from my own point of view, I would say that what is being talked about is a struggle for power over public opinion and the control of the media. Political interest groups use "hot-button" issues (racism, gender roles, Brexit, immigration, the interpretation of colonial history etc.) as a technique to polarise society and distinguish between "us" and "them". This is not a debate in the interest of truth. It is all about bullying and pushing certain agendas through. In other words, culture wars have intentional consequences. When a public TV channel with critical news reporting is being "privatised" or when the public BBC is threatened with a redrafting of its charter, you know that very likely culture wars are involved. Fuji X-E2 plus Helios 44M-7 wide open.
Ein weiterer Versuch mit Record Rapid
Zumindest mit der sehr alten Charge mit dem erhöhten Grundschleier ist ein zweites Entwicklerbad mit Ammoniumchlorid einigermaßen riskant, aber mit ein wenig mehr Aufwand geht auch das.
Erstentwickler fett wie gehabt (75+75+900 ml) aber nur 6 Minuten,
dann Lith Omega bis die tiefen Schatten schwärzen (45 Sekunden),
dann Stoppbad und drei anschließenden Spülgängen,
dann Meritol 1+200 mit Ammoniumchlorid +1ml Lith D als Antischleiermittel 2:30 Minuten.
Was den Schleier betrifft, kann sich das Ergebnis sehen lassen.
Der nächste Schritt ist aber ein Spiel mit dem Feuer. Schwefeltoner zeigen jeden noch so geringen Schleier an. Deshalb die Bildweißen mit dünnem Bleicher und Fixierbad (gleich Farmerscher Abschwächer) vor der Tonung geklärt.
MT4 Siean Polysulfidtoner 1+400 1 Minute
Another attempt with Record Rapid
At least with the very old batch with the increased base fog, a second developer bath with ammonium chloride is somewhat risky, but with a little more effort, it can be done.
First developer as usual (75+75+900 ml) but only 6 minutes,
then Lith Omega until the deep shadows turn black (45 seconds),
then stop bath and three subsequent rinses,
then Meritol 1+200 with ammonium chloride +1 ml Lith D as anti-fogging agent for 2:30 minutes.
As far as fogging is concerned, the result is not bad.
The next step, however, is playing with fire. Sulphur toners will show even the slightest fogging. Therefore, the whites in the image were clarified with a thin bleach and fixing bath (equivalent to Farmer's reducer) before toning.
MT4 Siean polysulphide toner 1+400 1 minute
ze kan het zich veroorloven, de egoïstische koe !! "
A discontented young servant in a 17th century Dutch kitchen.
If you need to, translate what she said to clarify her discontent :-)
Better viewed large
While driving up to Riefel today I noticed a flock of birds in the trees along the roadway. I stopped to have a better look and to my delight I saw it was a flock of crossbills. (A bird I have never seen before ) Unfortunately they were high up in the trees so photographing them was not optimal however one or two eventually came about half way down so I was able to get a few shots. Even though these are not the best quality photographs nothing could take away from the excitement of seeing these birds for the first time. To me the images are picture prefect.
pS I am thinking they are white winged cross bills as most of the birds had very predominate white wing bars. Maybe someone more knowledgeable could clarify?
Good view from the car to sketch this colonial house. The big tree posed some difficulty and back home I had to employ the white marker for a couple of clarifying lines.
So 99% of the photos I post have had some sort of treatment or editing done to them. I generally don't announce what tools I used, but in a few cases I do feel I need to clarify just how much an image was manipulated. I'm fairly new to creating composite images using multiple layers, and this one was the first time I believe three separate layers were used. The first was the church. This abandoned church was in a residential area in a small town in Michigan. From the point of view I took the photo, there were phone wires criss-crossing in front of the building. I had to remove all of those. Secondly, I had to enhance the sky. It was a flat gray and needed more boosting. The second layer was the grass. I took a section of grass from another scene during this same trip to Michigan and used it to place the church in an environment other than the neighborhood environment with a mowed lawn and houses and a street right up next to it. Finally, I felt it needed something in the foreground -- a person or a church graveyard. I finally decided on this photo from 5-6 years ago, resized it, and placed the graves and the person in the foreground. Finally, I applied a number of different fine-tunings, converted to black and white, and did some slight blue toning to give it a more "moody" feel. A lot of work but a lot of fun. Hoping to keep getting better at this sort of thing because sometimes the subject is just not where you envision it in your mind and needs to be elsewhere!
This is a selfie on demand from my mother who wanted to see the outcome of my hair appointment. To spare the rest of you, I have tried to make it artistic by adding double-exposure branches. To clarify, the new haircut did not involve branches.
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into the night, ....... probably less drama then the previous image ;-)))
the red light clarifies a lot ......... i think :-), or was it just a coincidence on this spot ;-)
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NO group invites of any kind, ........ would be very kind thank you
acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm
aliter videmus mundum
Symbol der Herrschaft
Screaming Eagle
I painted this artwork in Berlin in the summer of 2019 at the art studio of Susanne Kessler. The studio was poisoned by one or another service the way I had to leave after a few days . The last work I painted there I gave the title of "Dein Kampf" to clarify the totalitarian situation in which Europe has ended up
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter
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The Mystery of the Cigua de Constanza / Roufus Collared Sparrow
Zonotrichia capensis, or Cigua de Constanza is actually an Emberizid Sparrow, also called American Sparrows, and resembling the Old World or the Sparrows of the Old World.
The name of the genus Zonotrichia refers to the fringes or black areas that it has on its head. (Zonee: fringe, Trichia: hair-feathers for the case-). the name of species capensis, that probably is based on a writing error. because the suffix "ensis" means "that lives in" and is usually awarded to scientific names to indicate the location where a species was sighted or described for the first time. Ex: Buteo jamaicensis or Guaraguao / Red-tailed Hawk, which was described for the first time in Jamaica despite living in almost all of America.
Thus, capensis is a Latinization of the place where the bird sighting and its subsequent description was made. This name is used to designate species associated with the Cape of Good Hope in Africa and by becoming very creative we might think that it is associated with Cape Horn, where this species also lives. apparently it has been a confusion: "capensis" should have been "cayensis" making an allusion to the city of Cayenne, capital of French Guiana in South America; place referred to in the description of this species. Probably when writing the original texts, a "p" slipped in the place of a "and".
And the Mystery where is it? Well, precisely because this species that lives so far away is found only in some parts of the Central Cordillera of the Dominican Republic and nowhere else in the West Indies.
SOurce: Pedro Genaro.
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A MYSTERY OF THE HEIGHTS !!! As you explain the mystery that this species is of extensive distribution in Central America and South America, however in the Antilles it does NOT exist in Cuba, neither Jamaica nor Puerto Rico and only inhabits our Hispaniola Island and in a specific place that is the Central Mountain Range , for which reason it is called "Ciguita de Constanza".
And it said that it is a mystery of the heights because it is only found in high elevations above 900 meters, up to heights of 2400 meters above sea level.
The great thing of the case and to make it more difficult to clarify the mystery is that she is in our country since 1916, when the ornithologist W.L. Abbott sent a specimen of the species to the Smithsonian Institute of Washington D.C and for the first time confirmed the presence of Zonotrichia capensis in our country.
Its existence was a great surprise and to this day there is still no adequate explanation of the reason why it lives on our island and not in the other islands of the Caribbean.
It was known that the ciguita nested on this island due to the presence of young subjects, but it was not until May 1973 when a first nest was found.
Although it had only been found in the Cordillera Central, in the municipality of constanza, for what is called "Ciguita de Constanza", later Annabelle Stockton de Dod documented its presence in the Sierra de Neyba.
Anyway, why? and how this species came to our Island and not to Puerto Rico, Cuba or Jamaica is a Mystery.
source: Cimarron Mayor (MD.Jose M.Pantaleon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Passerellidae
Genus:Zonotrichia
Species:Z. capensis
Binomial name
Zonotrichia capensis
Edited with PS2025
Zenotricia_IMG_4668
Viewed at Greenwich Concurs show, 2021
In May 1950, Lancia used the opportunity of the Turin Motor Show to officially introduce a new saloon internally designated as the B10. Named for an ancient Roman road from Rome to Pisa, the new model was dubbed the Aurelia. Unremarkable at a glance, the new car was actually distinguished by a host of advanced mechanical features, including front and rear independent suspension, inboard rear brakes and a new 1.8-litre 60-degree alloy V-6 engine that would soon become known as the world’s first volume-produced V-6.
The Aurelia was built in six series through 1958, increasingly refined with each evolution. The seeming lack of an open version of the model was finally addressed at the Brussels Motor Show in January 1955 with the debut of the B24 Spider America. Based on the concurrent fourth-series cars, the spider actually utilized a purpose-built chassis that was 200 millimetres shorter than the standard Aurelia GT, with independent suspension and transaxle and engine displacement further increased to just over 2.5 litres. Its most obvious selling point was its indelible coachwork from Pinin Farina. Striking a perfect balance, with curved front and rear haunches, a wrap-around one-piece windscreen and dual front bumperettes split by the classic Lancia shield grille, the B24S also lacked external door handles to emphasize its slippery lines. Tiny half-cut doors only further boosted the roadster’s unique charm.
Lancia built 240 examples of the B24 spider through late 1955, with 181 cars specified as the B24S, the ‘S’ (for sinistra, Italian for ‘left’) denoting left-hand drive. The addition of the America suffix to the model’s nomenclature also clarified the company’s intention to market the spider to the U.S.
In 1956, the B24 continued on in a revised design as a true convertible, with a permanent retractable soft top, a more upright windscreen, roll-up windows and standard door handles. These cars were also made in far greater numbers, totalling 521 examples through early 1957. Given the spider’s rarity and purer execution of design brief, as well as its superior aesthetics, the earlier model is generally preferred by enthusiasts today. As the coachbuilt road-going brother of the successful D24 sports racer, which won the 1953 Carrera Panamericana, the B24S Spider America is today regarded as one of the most collectable Italian post-war spiders, claiming competition pedigree, advanced design and breath-taking exterior styling.
Credit: RM Sotheby's
Just a bit more fuel before they call it a night. A farmer friend of mine finally clarified where my babies go when our oh so fierce winters(?) hit. What little rain we've had this year as still managed to drive 95% of my hummers away.
My friend lives way up in Drum Canyon, far away from everything and he's inundated with hummingbirds as all the plants they so love are all pretty much starting to bloom.
Goes to prove they do prefer the natural to procreate and raise new families in, before they descend in full on my McDonalds of the hummer world in early summer, or about June.
The Cathedral of Seville is built on the old aljama mosque of the city, this shows the power that one culture exercises over another when it is conquered. This fact makes its plan different, facing Mecca and not Jerusalem, that is, facing south instead of east. It should be clarified that Mecca is oriented at 10o from Seville and not at 86o as the old mosque is oriented, this is due to the fact that in Al-Andalus the mosques had to be oriented towards the south quadrant and not towards the east, as the Christian churches did. When the Cathedral Chapter commissioned the design of the Gothic Cathedral, it stated verbatim that it wanted a Cathedral that everyone who saw it would take for crazy. For this, 5 naves were created that covered the 116 by 76 meter rectangle occupied by the Almohad mosque, this results, unlike what was usual in the great European Gothic Cathedrals, a hall plan with a Latin cross marked in height and in width by the central naves and the transept. This hall plan also results in the absence of an ambulatory at the head, which ends in a straight line like the wall of the old mosque. Later the Royal Chapel would be added, which is a Renaissance apse, but it does not really correspond to the Gothic company. In the naves of the Gospel and the Epistle, which are the lateral naves, there are many chapels. The 60 pillars support 68 ogive vaults, highlighting those of the transept and central nave with their star shapes. Instead of placing a clerestory, a continuous balcony was chosen along the main nave in order to be able to wander around the temple without being seen. Located in the central nave, in order from the feet, are the Retrochoir, the Choir, with two organs, the Transept, the Main Altar, the Back of Altar and the Royal Chapel.
Bodnant Garden, Conwy.
Bodnant Garden, Autumn.
Bodnant Garden (Welsh: Gardd Bodnant) is a National Trust property near Tal-y-Cafn, in the county borough of Conwy, Wales, situated overlooking the Conwy Valley towards the Carneddau range of mountains. Founded in 1874 and developed by five generations of one family, it was gifted to the care of the National Trust in 1949.
The garden’s founder, Henry Davis Pochin, was a Leicestershire-born Victorian industrial chemist who acquired fame and fortune inventing a process for clarifying rosin used in soap, turning it from the traditional brown to white. He became a successful businessman, mayor and JP. Pochin bought the Bodnant estate in 1874 and employed Edward Milner, apprentice to Joseph Paxton, to redesign the land around the existing Georgian mansion house, then just lawns and pasture. Together Pochin and Milner relandscaped the hillside and valley, planting American and Asian conifers on the banks of the River Hiraethlyn to create a Pinetum, and reinforcing stream banks to create a woodland and water garden in the valley, in the style of the garden designer of the day William Robinson in his book The Wild Garden. In the upper garden, Pochin and Milner created the Laburnum Arch and glasshouses, to house exotics. Pochin also built The Poem, the family mausoleum in an area of the Shrub Borders.
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same moment, seen again â this time with slightly sharper eyes. sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in light to unlock the full depth of a frame. this reflection holds a little more now: a better balance, a stronger gaze, a quiet connection between two people who never saw each other.
As mists and wet snow flurries mugly shroud the canal outside my window, I've spent a little time in the warmer climes of the East Indies, South Africa and Socotra. Earlier I'd been in the South Africa Glass House of the Hortus of which many of the plants were described in the catalogue engagingly written by Jan Commelin (1629-1692). So, too, this Aloe succotrina, about to burst into flower.
But looking at the explicative name board supplied by the Hortus the specific 'succotrina' struck me. No doubt, I thought, that name refers to the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean just off the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea. But our plant is said - on that name board - to be endemic to the Fynbos in the area of Cape Town, South Africa. And having scurried off home I found that Jan Commelin in 1697 refers to the East Indies as its provenance. Now, I can imagine that in the minds of the seventeenth-century Dutch Socotra might be referred to as in the East Indies; in fact, that latter term was used for the Malabar Coast of India as well. So that clarifies our Aloe's 'succotrina'. But then another problem arises: how is it that this plant is generally said to be endemic to the Fynbos of South Africa while its name claims its native land as Socotra. I haven't worked that out yet...
The image today was taken this afternoon at work during my break. The view is a Macro shot of one of the Christmas decorations hanging on the tree. As it's Monday this image serves as both my Photo and edit for my iPhone 365 project and my entry for Macro Mondays - Holiday Bokeh.
The photo was taken using the app Camera+ on my iPhone 6.
First I used the app Snapseed to edit the photo. I Cropped the image and applied the Tonal Contrast filter. I then boosted the Contrast and Saturation. I also decreased the Highlights and Shadows a little and added some extra Structure to the image. I finally applied some Lens Blur to focus on the decoration. Next I used the app PopAGraph to apply the Elegance effect to the present decoration and a Sepia effect to the background. Finally I used the app PhotoToaster to add the Clarify preset, the Vibrant FX and an Medium Dark Vignette. I then applied the Bokeh texture and the Stacked frame.
Since it was not readily apparent, I wanted to clarify that this is a 3" section of the inner zipper on a hand bag. Shot on a 40mm macro lens for this week's #label theme in #macromonday.
The relationships between the species need to be further clarified
Hidden almost out of sight, just off the Huron Street bridge in downtown Stratford, Ontario lies the Shakespearean Gardens. This well manicured English garden offers a formal setting with boxwood hedges,stone walkways, benches and gazebo yet comes alive with the brilliant colour of an amazing array of flowers, herbs, shrubs and trees.
The views from the garden are just as impressive with the historic Perth County Courthouse to one side and the gently flowing Avon River on the other side. Stone steps and a pathway along the Avon River lead you underneath the old Huron Street bridge and towards the Shakespeare Festival. 184
I was asked recently about whether Brisbane’s murals would catch up to those in Melbourne. Melbourne has lanes like Hosier where street artists can go mad painting and repainting to their heart’s content. Apparently, because it is vibrant and constantly changing street art, it is basically acceptable for people to go in and virtually vandalise it (as they recently did) because that is the nature of street art - artists understand others will come and paint or spray over it as it is ever evolving.
Brisbane doesn’t tend to have any of those type of venues that I am aware of (except perhaps the genuinely illegal ones) but in terms of its mural art, it is up there with any of the other large cities. Brisbane has become a city of amazing murals and they are popping up everywhere. Many are done by emerging or already famous mural artists who also add their work to other cities. This can be seen in the work of Adnate whose wonderful work adorns walls in many Australian cities and towns (refer to his website below) including this 2019 work on a college building at 495 Boundary Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane on the left hand side and Sheep Chen on the right (thanks Suzie for clarifying the two artists here).
Murals and street art have become a world wide phenomena and anyone who has followed my photos on Flickr will have seen them also in tiny wheat towns (silo art) and towns like Benalla (Vic) and Portland or Eugowra (NSW) which have them throughout the town in various forms as a pull for tourists.
I am still attempting to find the title of the work but as you can see it is quite a few stories high. Within about 30 minutes on this day I was able to photograph 4 large wall canvasses within the city area which I had never seen before and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
495 Boundary Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane.
Artist : Adnate
This HDR pano shows in the background the old furnace 5 to the right and the crane for the bunkers. All is reflected in a clarifier of the old abandoned treatment plant.
This HDR pano is stitched from 3 images, each develped from 5 different exposures.
The image today was taken late this Morning during my break at work. The view is a close up shot of a bundle of pencils. As well a being my Photo and Edit of the day for my 365 project, the shot taken as a Macro is also my entry for Macro Mondays - PPEP (Pencils, Pens, Erasers and/or Paperclips).
The photo was taken using a Macro Lens attachment and the app Cortex Camera on my iPhone 6.
First I used the app Snapseed to edit the picture. I cropped the image into a square and applied the Tonal Contrast preset. I then increased the Structure and Sharpness a little and boosted the Contrast and Shadows. After this I decreased the Highlights, Warmth and Ambiance. I finally added a vignette to the image. After this I used the app PicsArt to apply the Artistic Oil Painting FX preset. Finally I used PhotoToaster to add the Clarify preset, the Drama FX and a Medium dark vignette. I then applied the Stacked frame.
Ok, perhaps I should clarify, this photo isn't really of the Japanese Alps. Rather, it was taken on the slopes of it. The Japanese Alps, are a mountain range east of Fuji and stretches all the way north to Nagano, and boasts many wonders like reflective lakes, mountain rope courses and of course, the thermal springs used by macaques.
When I was on my way out here Fuji finally opened up and the sky looked just perfect. I initially had a list of shots I would get facing the slopes of the alps itself, but obviously I would be taking this advantage instead now that it was here.
Somehow, when I went cycling through my camera roll, this particular angle had no people walking through it, I don't know how fortunate I was to get that. A winding path with 2 thatched roof houses and Fuji on full display in the back. The grass looked nearly dead and the moss on the roof looked a little too organic cause other plant life was growing off it. The other roof wasn't nearly as colorful but I figured it could help with a clarity fix to bring more details out, and it was alright to say the least. In-between the two buildings were some construction material and cars in the back, so of course I had to get rid of it all and make it the dry grass.
In editing, there was light pollution in the sky to deal with, and having brownish grass in the back felt fine but up close, even for a volcanic area, did not look good enough. So I gave both of them separate color adjustments. There was a random concrete slab on the right that I got rid of as well.
Iyashi specialized in forestry, charcoal, dairy, and silk farming and was fortunate to have diverse seasons to allow that. 2 separate typhoons in the 1960s brought the high waters in from Lake Saito and destroyed nearly all of the village. The abandoned site waited 4 decades to be half-restored into a history center (half as in the amount of houses, not the quality).
I had been planning to visit the shipwreck in Wenningstedt-Braderup on the island of Sylt for a long time.
You can read about it:
"In the Wadden Sea between Braderup and Munkmarsch, barely 200 metres from the beach, lies the shipwreck of the once proud three-masted schooner "Mariann".
At low tide, the wooden remains are clearly visible.
Anyone thinking of a shipwreck or even pirates may be disappointed when they learn the true story:
In 1961, the ship was towed into Munkmarsch harbour - by two Sylt residents who wanted to open a floating café on it. However, they were refused the necessary licence, so they anchored the ship a little further north between Munkmarsch and Braderup in the Wadden Sea.
Plan B for the pair: Turn the ship into a cabaret! However, the authorities threw a spanner in the works here too: a pier required for this was not approved.
Due to a lack of alternatives, the ship became an unofficial party ship until a fire broke out on board in 1981. The causes were never clarified."
Source: wenningstedt.de
Leica SL2-S + Lumix 16 - 35mm f4
Karangarua 7886, New Zealand.
(I Looked at Google Maps to clarify position only to see this old house has now collapsed).
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"frech wie Oskar"
Mit der Redewendung will
KARIN ausdrücken, dass CARLOS sich besonders frech und NEUGIERIG verhält.
Woher dieser Ausspruch kommt, ist nicht endgültig geklärt.
Vermutlich leitet sich der Name "Oskar" vom jiddischen Wort "Ossoker" ab, das "frecher Kerl" bedeutet
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"cheeky like oskar"
With the phrase
KARIN wants to express that CARLOS behaves particularly cheeky and curious.
Where this saying comes from, is not finally clarified.
Probably the name "Oskar" is derived from the Yiddish word "Ossoker", which means "cheeky guy".
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Not sure which one this was, but it sure was nuclear.
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I'm known to sit on images for a while, but I just had to put one out from last night's insane sunset in SF. This is a single exposure. NOAA, weather.com, and Google weather all forecasted chance of rain, but Escaype told us it would burn :)
edit, 4.30.15: I'd like to clarify what I mean above. I don't mean to discount any of the above weather sources -- in fact, I refer to them all the time, and all the raw data we use comes from the same places. However, our vision is to create a weather service that speaks directly to photographers. On this day, we found that the forecasts on other sites for chance of rain (weather.com reported that occasional showers were expected to start about an hour before sunset), coupled with the visual of muted grey, cloudy skies, caused many Bay Area photographers to stay inside and miss a spectacular sunset. In no way were any of the other forecasts wrong, per se. I'm sorry if this caused any confusion.
The Government Conference Centre is a government building in downtown Ottawa, Canada, located at 2 Rideau Street. It is situated at the intersection of Wellington Street and the Rideau Canal, just a short distance from the Parliament buildings and Confederation Square, and across the street from the Château Laurier hotel, completed around the same time.
The building was opened by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1912 as Ottawa's railway station, and the hotel was built across the street to serve travellers. Previously in Ottawa, each railway company had its own station. The Grand Trunk Railway company decided to allow other Railways to use this station, therefore clarifying and unifying passenger travel in the city.[6]
Interestingly, the opening of the Union Station and the Chateau Laurier was not met with much fanfare when opened in June 1912, since Grand Trunk Railway general manager Charles Hays perished in the Titanic disaster two months previously 113
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Just to clarify ..... this is a PHOTOGRAPH of a Mandrill at Chester Zoo taken by myself.
People have commented on how I must of used lots of Photoshop ...... I used ONE tool .... the burn tool, anyone can do it, it's so easy ... just start with the right image.
A massively clarified view roughly south from Sgùrr na Banachdich in the Cuillin range on the Isle of Skye.
The peak in the foreground is the western top of Sgùrr Dearg, also part of the Cuillin and only about a kilometre away. Beyond that is the island of Eigg, beyond that the Ardnamurchan peninsula (whose tip, out of shot to the right, is the furthest west point in the mainland of Great Britain) and in the far distance is Ben More, the highest mountain and only Munro on the Isle of Mull, about 90 kilometres/60 miles away.
I've added some grain to disguise the rather unpleasant noise caused by the small sensor and greatly exaggerated by the clarification. Previously posted in colour.
The Siq (Arabic: السيق, transliterated al-Sīq, transcribed as-Sīq,[a] literally 'the Shaft') is the main entrance to the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in southern Jordan. Also known as Siqit, the main entrance in Petra is a dim, narrow gorge (in some points no more than 3 metres (10 ft) wide) winds its way approximately 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) and ends at Petra's most elaborate ruin, Al Khazneh (the Treasury). A wide valley outside leading to the Siq is known as the Bab as-Sīq (Gateway to the Siq).
Unlike slot canyons like Antelope Canyon, which are directly shaped by water, the Siq is a natural geological fault split apart by tectonic forces; only later was it worn smooth by water. The walls that enclose the Siq stand between 91–182 metres (299–597 ft) in height.]
The entrance to the Siq contains a huge dam, reconstructed in 1963 and again in 1991, designed to bar the mouth of the Siq and reroute the waters of Wadi Musa. The dam is a fairly true reconstruction of what the Nabataeans did to control Wadi Musa between the 1st century BC and the beginning of the 1st century AD. The entrance also contains the remnants of a monumental arch, of which only the two abutments and some hewn stones of the arch itself have survived. The arch collapsed in 1896 following an earthquake, but its appearance is known from the lithographs of Matthew Boulby and David Roberts.
The Siq was used as the grand caravan entrance into Petra. Along both walls of the fissure are a number of votive niches containing baetyli, which suggest that the Siq was sacred to the Nabatean people. In 1998, a group of statues were uncovered when digging was conducted to lower the road by more than six feet. Although the upper part is greatly eroded, it is still possible to recognise the figures of two merchants, each leading two camels. The figures are almost twice lifesize.
Along the Siq are some underground chambers, the function of which has not yet been clarified. The possibility that they were tombs has been excluded, and archaeologists find it difficult to believe that they were dwellings. The majority consensus is that they housed the guards that defended the main entrance to Petra.