Magpie

A White-tailed Sea Eagle...... with nibbles .

Loch Na Keal, Mull.

Most of the older farm houses had gourd birdhouses hung around them to attract Purple Martins which are supposed to help with mosquito control.

This image started out and went in a new direction for me! I have always admired these drawing-like looks, but didn't know how to accomplish them. This one came on my computer with complete serendipity. I wasn't even trying to accomplish this - I just wanted to make a very bland photo interesting and usable. I would welcome any instruction from those who know how to achieve this look in a more orderly & predictable fashion than I went through.

Kodak Portra 160 with Mamiya 645 super and Sekor 35 mm

Mr Spock is testing his mind control to see if he can change the remote to the channel he wants or influence me to do his bidding.

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"Taking Back Control" by Sparta

The future bleeds

All these wasted seeds

Don't let it go

We're taking back control

The future bleeds

All these wasted seeds

Don't let it go

We're taking back control

Just trying to get a handle on things.

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GB, January 2021

Control

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♫ Teddy Swims - Lose Control (Live) ♫

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I wish there is remote control for everything...            Video

Ex turbine hall and control room of a former coal mine (1914-1988)

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Also.. thank you to my friend Joe for posing with me

Those pretty purple flowers are a non-native vinca. The deer have managed to keep the patch small, although this year the plant seems to be growing more than usual. Unfortunately they can't seem to keep English Ivy under control. They do like it, but it seems to grow too fast.

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The world drifts, aware of its own daze, caught in a massive maneuver toward shipwreck. Old values fade as new ones rise, spitting shrill blasts like the trumpets of Jericho. An abandoned shell, an urban skeleton, the last breath of solitude. The death of the new through the old, and of the old through the new. Birth and collapse. A whole that amounts to nothing.

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El mundo va a la deriva y se sabe aturdido, inmerso en una masiva maniobra de naufragio. Los viejos valores se difuminan y se erigen otros nuevos que escupen estridencias como trompetas de Jericó. Cascarón abandonado, esqueleto urbano, último aliento de soledad. Es la muerte de lo nuevo a través de lo viejo y viceversa. Un nacimiento y un colapso. Un todo que es la nada.

The North Office of Bethlehem Steel 2009

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A controlled burn in a near by town. Numerous fire departments came for training.

In an abandoned steel factory

owner named his Mopar "outta control"...certainly aptly named with this as his engine combo

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Sharp structure. Controlled elegance.

A silhouette built between restraint and exposure.

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Here is another recent capture that I let hang around for a while. I found these examples of the good and lasting work of rain and iron oxide. Clearly, this was another day without clouding on my probable circuitous way back from a CostCo trip. I kept the sky minimized. These old rust heaps were enough to catch my attention near Teller farm on Valmont Road back to Frogmont. BoCo's White Rock open space is on the hill, left, while farming continues in the valley.

Actually, today, there are no skies nor clouds, only blank skies - and disgusting pictures. even on this summer's day. This is probably more than a make-believe farm because it looks like activity exists around training horses and riders. This prize came about after I got control of some visual distraction problems. It's interesting that they still have a farm here at all while there are prairie castles and housing all about. It's easier to grow castles around here than anything agriculture while petroleum is more important than water and food. That's a balance sheet that is already unbalanced in this fascist administration whose outgoing project trying to sell ANWAR to the highest bidders..

eDDie usually finds the barns for agricultural collections. I have passed this place any number of times. Earlier, The local weather alway says wait a few days, wait a few days for any skies. We have lately been in a maximum cheat zone. We've already waited weeks and weeks and weeks. Are we done yet?

control room to the turbines that powered an old paper mill

Puits Simon - abandoned coal mine (1904-1997)

Virgin Queen

Sluice controls for the leat beside the river Don at Aberdeen.

The Harbour shipping control tower, which is destined to be demolished.

As part of the redevelopment of Barangaroo the tower has ben decomissioned, but a long battle to save it from demolition has failed.

a 2 minute and a 1.5 minute exposure stacked for the cloud movement

2012 RE-EDIT

We enjoyed a nice outing to South Coyote Buttes last night. This is one of the most iconic features in the area known as the Control Tower with some soft twilight glow. If you ever get a permit to visit, I can take you out here for the best light! Other tour guides in the area just take you out in the middle of the day. Trust me, it looks a million times better in the golden hour!

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"The walls are closing in again

So claustrophobic as I'm trapped in my head

It’s like I don't belong in my own skin

It's sinking in, I’m lower than I've ever been

(Oh god, oh god)

Why do I feel so wrong?

(I hold on, hold on)

Before I'm too far gone

I can't let it consume me

I'm losing my grip

(Woah, woah)

Sometimes my mind takes me for a ride

Feels like I'm ready to die, I'm ready to die

'Cause I got thoughts so dark, they tear me apart

And I know that I’m losing control

I’ve been running from the one in the mirror

Now it's been forever since I could see clear

Nobody can help

I’m the only one who can save myself

I hear voices that fill me with doubt

I try so hard to block them out

I sit around and wonder why

I'm alive but I don't feel much life

(Oh god, oh god)

Why do I feel so wrong?

(I hold on, hold on)

To all the hope not lost

I won't let it consume me

I need to get out of this nightmare

Sometimes my mind takes me for a ride

Feels like I’m ready to die, I'm ready to die

'Cause I got thoughts so dark, they tear me apart

And I know that I'm losing control

I've been running from the one in the mirror

Now it's been forever since I could see clear

Nobody can help

I'm the only one who can save myself

Save myself

Sometimes my mind takes me for a ride

Feels like I'm ready to die

I'm ready to die

Sometimes my mind takes me for a ride

Feels like I'm ready to die, I'm ready to die

'Cause I got thoughts so dark, they tear me apart

And I know that I'm losing control

I've been running from the one in the mirror

Now it's been forever since I could see clear

Nobody can help

I'm the only one who can save myself

I'm the only one who can save myself"

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Video:

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Ex coal mine (1914-1988)