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Mr Olivier M. Schwab, Executive Director, China, World Economic Forum Beijing Representative Office, Mr.Ren Xuefeng, Vice-Mayor of Tianjin, People's Republic of China and Mr Qu Xiaofei, Vice-Mayor of Dalian, People's Republic of China at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 13 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum
Close Ups while driving enroute to Mainestreet Club. What the toll takers and other drivers got to see.
.. close-up of a dry wild-flower, splited open to spread seeds of life, around.
see more FLOWERs here.
A close-up of the 6111WA tube in the Audio Note DAC 0.1x. The U.S. quarter is there for scale. It isn't in the circuit!
Pictures of the one and only Australian outlet of UK-based department store chain Debenhams in the Melbourne CBD.
The store was located in the basement of St Collins Place with a small addition on the ground floor for cosmetics. The store opened in September 2017 as part of a major redevelopment in what was previously 'Australia on Collins' with Debenhams operating in Australia as a franchise from the South African Pepkor, later called Greenlit Brands.
The intention of the franchise arrangement was to have up to ten Debenhams stores in Australia. In the end only the Melbourne store ever opened and did not attract the customer numbers the owners hoped and the decision was made to close by January 2020 - at the same time the UK parent went into administration and was in the process of closing stores. Around a year later the chain went into liquidation with remaining stores set to close.
I watched the young Roe kid nervously sneaking towards the buck..He approached slowly and trying to appear casually uninterested when the buck glared at him..He would put his head down and nibble at the grass and Buttercups..This happened four or five times and each time the adult would chase him away when he got too close as in the next shot.
"I like to keep this one for close encounters."
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Photos taken at an open practice sparring session for Historia Normannis in the Meadows, Edinburgh.
Participants were given tutorials in defending and attacking using shields, swords and axes made of wood. Plenty of action and I was lucky enough to get into the sparring area to get closer to the action. Hopefully something that will be repeated in the future. Images are low quality and hardly edited at all due to a lack of time.
2017 Beyond Borders: mosaic auction
Open: 10:00am EDT Friday April 14, 2017
Close: 10:00pm EDT Sunday April 23, 2017
Auction site: www.biddingforgood.com/2017BeyondBorders
Mette Wilkie, Chief, Policy and Resources Division and Deputy Director FAO speak on the GLF Katowice Closing Remarks: The role of people in the landscape in meeting the Paris Agreement temperature targets.
Global Landscapes Forum, Katowice, Poland.
Photo by GLF
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9 years ... (!) ... I had to wait nine years to relive the excitement of reviewing this imaginative very particular Sicilian popular feast of Fiumedinisi town (Messina): the Sicilian town celebrates it in honor of Her patron saint Virgin Mary Annunciated; Fiumedinisi celebrated it last time in 2007, fortunately I was there and I realized a small report I posted on Flickr. This is a report about the feast of August 14, 2016: it takes place in two stages along an almost straight path that joins two churches, road called precisely '' the road of float" (the same path is achieved by kneeling worshipers during the mystical procession called "of kneelings" or even understood as "travels", that this year, unlike the other editions, was made just the previous evening of this long-awaited edition, also this procession "of kneeling" I described here on Flickr). Initially the Float Feast was celebrated in Fiumedinisi on March 25, when there is the ricorrence of the religious feast of the Annunciation of the Lord, only towards the end of the nineteenth century the feast was moved to August to allow so many emigrants to took part to it. The living float of Fiumedinisi is a heavy votive machine built in wood and iron that is carried on the shoulders of about 150 men (Its curb weight is around 2.8 tons, 12 meters long and 8 meters high), three children take place on it, they personify the Eternal Father, the Archangel Gabriel and the Blessed Virgin Mary, in addition to the archpriest of Fiumedinisi, the bishop of Messina, and other devotees also they have the role of monitoring-reassure very young children who play the role of Angels. The feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, patron saint of Fiumedinisi, founded in the sixteenth century during the Spanish rule, then it consists of a first part with participants don't wear traditional clothes, which takes place starting around 11:00 am, begins from the square in front of the twelfth-century Sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary Annunciated, to arrive in a little square in front of the church of St. Peter; then in the early afternoon, always along the same path, there is a second part with all devotees who wear the traditional dresses. When all have taken their places, three hammer blows kick off at the start, the very big-heavy float is carried on the shoulder of devotees, while people waving handkerchiefs as he passed; the representation finds its maximum intensity, and closes with a song dialect of great beauty and sweetness, in an atmosphere of complete silence, handed down for centuries, in the form of "dialogue" between the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Archangel Gabriel who is announcing to Mary with his sweet song about the mistery of Conception of Son of God, he is kneeling and gives Her the lily, in memory of the purity that Mary will not never lose (iconography that we find in Sacred Representations).
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9 anni…(!)… ho dovuto aspettare ben 9 anni per rivivere l’emozione di rivedere la immaginifica festa popolare e religiosa Siciliana che la cittadina di Fiumedinisi (Messina) celebra in onore della sua patrona Maria Santissima Annunziata: 9 anni infatti sono passati dall’ultima volta che Fiumedinisi celebrò questa sua festa, io c’ero e vi realizzai un piccolo report che postai qui su Flickr. Questo è un report della festa, realizzata quest’anno il 14 Agosto 2016: essa si svolge in due tempi con “una andata ed un ritorno” lungo un percorso quasi rettilineo che unisce due chiese, chiamata appunto “strada ‘a vara” (lo stesso percorso viene realizzato in ginocchio dai fedeli durante quella processione mistica chiamata “degli inginocchiati” od anche intesa come “i viaggi”, che quest’anno, a differenza delle altre edizioni, è stata realizzata proprio la sera precedente di questa tanto attesa edizione, anche questa processione “degli inginocchiati” ho descritto in un passato post qui su Flickr). Inizialmente la Festa della Vara veniva celebrata a Fiumedinisi il 25 marzo, proprio in concomitanza con la ricorrenza religiosa dell'Annunciazione del Signore, soltanto verso al fine del XIX secolo la Festa venne spostata ad agosto per consentire ai tanti emigrati di prendevi parte. La Vara di Fiumedinisi è una pesantissima macchina votiva costruita in legno e ferro che viene portata in spalla da circa 150 uomini (Il suo peso a vuoto si aggira intorno alle 2,8 tonnellate, lunga m 12 e alta m 8), su di essa prendono posto tre bambini tra i 10 e i 14 anni che impersonano il Padre Eterno, l'Arcangelo Gabriele e la Vergine Maria, oltre all'arciprete di Fiumedinisi, al vescovo di Messina, ed altri devoti che hanno anche il compito di sorvegliare-rassicurare i giovanissimi bimbi che rivestono il ruolo di Angioletti. La festività dell’Annunciazione di Maria Vergine, patrona di Fiumedinisi, istituita nel XVI secolo durante la dominazione spagnola, si compone quindi di una “andata” senza che i partecipanti indossano gli abiti tradizionali, partenza che avviene attorno alle ore 11,00, inizia dalla piazza antistante il Santuario del XII secolo dedicato alla Madonna Annunziata, per giungere nel largo posto davanti la chiesa di San Pietro; poi nel primo pomeriggio, sempre lungo lo stesso percorso vi è un “ritorno con tutti i devoti che, questa volta, indossano gli abiti tradizionali, i portatori sono completamente vestiti di bianco e scalzi, mentre Maria, l’Arcangelo Gabriele ed il Padre Eterno vestono i loro caratteristici costumi. Quando tutti hanno preso posto, ecco che tre colpi di martello danno il via alla partenza, l’enorme vara viene portata in spalla alla volta della chiesa Matrice, mentre la gente sventola fazzoletti al suo passaggio; la rappresentazione trova la sua massima intensità, e si chiude, con un canto dialettale di grande suggestione e dolcezza, in un contesto di assoluto silenzio, tramandato da secoli, in forma di “dialogo” tra la Beata Vergine Maria e l’Arcangelo Gabriele, il quale dopo aver annunciato a Maria col suo dolcissimo canto del concepimento del Figlio dell'Altissimo, inginocchiandosi le porge il giglio, in ricordo della purità che Maria non perderà (iconografia che ritroviamo nelle Sacre Rappresentazioni).
I can't sleep at night
Staring at the phone
Knowing you are not alone
She is right there by your side
I'm trying just to hide
All the things I feel inside
I can sense the chemistry
When you are standing close to me
I feel like a ship that's lost at sea
It's getting harder to ignore
It's not like anything before
I know it's crazy baby but I want more
I wish i could be close to you
And feel your every move
Neva meant to feel this way
Maybe you would come around one day
I wish i could be close to you
To feel your every touch
Becoz the sky won't heal the way I feel
Heaven knows I've wanted it so much
(Wanted it so much)
(wanted it so much)
I am the one to blame
Trying to explain
But I will cause myself such pain
Your heart not your heart
I trying to turn the time
But time is never on my side
I can sense the chemistry
When your standing close to me
I feel like a ship that's lost at sea
It's getting harder to ignore
It's not like anything before
I know it's crazy baby but I want more
(I wish that I could be so close to you)
I wish that I could be close to you
And feel your every move
Neva meant to feel this way
Maybe you would come around one day
I wish I could be close to you
To feel you every touch
Becoz the sky won't heal the way i feel
Heaven knows I've wanted it so much
Closing Night Party of Fantastic Fest on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jack Plunkett)
Epic north rim Grand Canyon sunset with a summer thunderstorm breaking!
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Celebrating Dr. E's LAw of Moving Dimensions ^& Dynamic Dimensions Theory dx4/dt=ic which derives from Homer's Odyssey! "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them." --Homer's Odyssey! herosodysseyphysics.wordpress.com
Drove 60 miles down a rocky dirt road for these shots and camped overnight to shoot this Torweap / Tuweep sunrise! Toroweap, a Paiute terms,"dry or barren valley." And it was! I slept five feet from the edge all night, as I was shooting night shots of a dead tree on the edge, with the canyon and silvered river down below.
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Nikon D810 & Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens Photos of Tuweep Toroweap Overlook Grand Canyon Arizona! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show !
Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for my Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
Let me know your favs.!
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I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Odyssey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 300,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes Shot with Nikon D800E: Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's odyssey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D810 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
All the best on your epic hero's odyssey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
Toroweap / Tuweep in the Grand Canyon, Arizona is Beautiful!
New blog celebrating my philosophy of photography with tips, insights, and tutorials!
Nikon D810 Sunrise Photos of Toroweap (Tuweep) Overlook Grand Canyon Arizona! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show !
All the best on your epic hero's odyssey!
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Closing Session of the International Conference on Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 24 June 2022
Photo Credit: IAEA