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One thing I look forward to every year is the return of the Damselflies, I just love them. They have such character, great colours and are one insect that have that anthropomorphic quality. You can really get eye contact with these guys and a variety of expressions. I really must try to find some different species this year as well. Only 3.5 Months or so to wait LOL ;o)
This was an Ischnura elegans from July last Summer, I took this using my MP-E at about x2-x3 mag using a diffused flash. It was a 15 image focus stack using an F/7.1 aperture, ISO 320 and a 1/160 shutter speed.
Hope everyone has had a great weekend :o)
"One.....two.....THREE! Yay!!! Everybody clap!
Oh wait....I can't."
Taken at Dunkerhook Park in Paramus, NJ.
Cropped image.
It was 90 seconds. During this time, I stood still with my tripod and watched the nature, the sky, the clouds and listened to the birds. This relax session cost me nothing.
Nature reserve "Urdenbacher Kämpe", Düsseldorf, Germany.
My own desgined micro hurricane, I'm so loving the overall desgin.
The desgin on this started with the base of the P40 desgined by Lego pilot, It looked like a hurricane in some angeles, but its in in no way now any more of that P40 and is completely my desgin.
In 994, Count Palatine Aribo I of the Aribonen noble family donated a monastery in “Sewa”. Due to the very good relationship between the Count Palatine and the Bishop of Regensburg, Wolfgang von Regensburg, monks from the St. Emmeram Monastery in Regensburg move into the new foundation. The monastery receives relics of St. Lambert of Maastricht.
The monastery is in full bloom financially and economically. The monastery has a very good reputation for the production of magnificent manuscripts and books. This economic success is also reflected in the construction of a new, essentially Romanesque church, consecrated in 1200. In 1201, King Philip gave the Bishop of Salzburg the former imperial abbey together with Frauenchiemsee.
At the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century the church was rebuilt in the Gothic style.
But in the 16th century, many monks followed the teachings of Martin Luther and left the monastery.
Duke Albrecht V reformed the Seeon monastery with the help of the Benedictines from Tegernsee. It experiences a new beginning. In 1579, during the Renaissance, the interior of the church was decorated with magnificent frescoes.
Under Abbot Honorad Kolb, however, the monastery experienced an upswing in the middle of the Thirty Years' War. This can be seen in the numerous new buildings that the abbot has built. The interior of the church was also lined with baroque stucco under his leadership. Debt weighs heavily on the monastery's shoulders. The abbot is deposed. However, the monastery was soon debt-free again and was one of the richest monasteries in old Bavaria.
Like all monasteries, Seeon falls victim to secularisation. The monastery church becomes a parish church, and the convent buildings change hands several times.
In the 19th century, the church interior was redesigned in a neo-Gothic style, and the baroque stucco was removed.
Today there is a cultural and educational center in the monastery buildings.
The Seeoner Madonna is famous, a figure of the Master of Seeon (name unknown). A copy of the figure is in the high altar created in 1947, the original is on display in the Bavarian National Museum. The crucifixion group created around 1390 hangs under the triumphal arch. There it was placed in its original place in 2002 after it had been removed during the baroque period, and in 1982 it went to the Diocesan Museum in Freising.
Five SD40-2s in command of H-NTWGFD1-09A
BNSF 1687
BNSF 1688
BNSF 1997
BNSF 1940
BNSF 1698
Yes, this is a mainline train with nothing but SD40-2s, just what decade are we in?
Too bad 1687 fell victim to the primer door.
I came here to photograph hadrians wall ( a couple of metres over brow) when these sheep popped into view.
A photo from each month this year. (man oh man it was hard to choose just one Scotland picture!)
January: small landscapes
February: but not broken
March: pushing against the cold
April: I should go now, quietly
May: untitled
June: a rare moment of stillness
July: beach living
August: and one old truck
September: the arrival
October: in a flurry of chaos and light
November: study in coolness
December: a little christmas red
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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1. Yes We Are, 2. Retirement Plan, 3. Bikes Only, 4. Rough And Rowdy Ways, 5. Fresh, 6. Eye Candy, 7. Incoming, 8. Fremont East, 9. Where Have I Been, 10. Brooklyn Diner, 11. November Snow, 12. Libby's Holiday Shot
From East Coast to West Coast; hospitals to farmers markets; beaches to deserts; Dylan to diners; with home and dog to keep me centered.
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Abandoned places in Berlin
The former investigative and district court prison in Berlin Köpenick * 1899 was begun in Berlin-Köpenick with the construction of a district court and a prison and taken at the end of 1901 in operation. In May 1933, the SA took over the prison. She used it as a central detention and torture center. During this time, known as Blood Week, communists, dissenters, and Jews were maltreated and murdered behind thick brick walls.
At the time of the GDR, the building was initially used as a men's and youth prison and later converted as a remand prison. Since the eighties, the building is largely empty.
The dilapidated Berlin-Köpenick prison shows Spartan prison conditions at the time of the Emperors. No heating, no toilets, sleeping in dark, tiny cells on wooden bunks
Decades of decay have left their mark: once green and white paint peeling off the walls,
Cell to cell, four stories high, door latch and folding spy doors through which the guards watched the inmates.
If you were here, you whould not feel the need to come back here after the dismissal.
First outing for Sigma 12-24. No AF for the F50 and that's a bit tricky with the focusing. That's the moment I've waited, a bit of color in the sky and lights turned on. The lights were bright enough for the reflection. My verdict of the lens is not as good as the Nikon 24mm F2.8 Prime, in term of crisp-ness and clarity. Well, I need the Sigma for it's 12mm!
Fujifilm Reala 100, 18mm, F22, 20 sec, Manfrotto tripod.
Tsing Ma Bridge, Hong Kong
Hasselblad 500C/M + C80 T* + Portra160NC
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My own photograph of a female mallard, taken with a Canon EOS 550D - 400mm focal length at 1/4000 sec.
'Out of Bounds' effect created in Paintshop Pro.
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Soundtrack: Here
This is a response for the Get pushed Group round 45, This time I was paired with rafartreides2009 he challenged me to follow the theme of one of this flickr groups challenges:
Bench Monday, Treemendous Tuesday, Bokeh Wednesday, Fenced Friday, Sliders Sunda.
I chose bokeh!
...also week 16
Theme: Counting on Hearts - Icon for Hire
Concept Art created using AI Furry Generator
Edited using Krita 5.2.9
I'm counting on hearts like yours
to keep me burning,
to keep me up
'til two in the morning.
You be bright
when I'm starting to rust,
you be 'Why?'
behind the 'What?'
Indeed, some things are not as they seem. Us cats on the 'walks, you could say we are holding onto yesterday's dreams. But you know what? Some things are very much worth fighting for. The life of the cats ruling the rooftops and catwalks, that was something we took to the grave with us. Now, only embers remain cycled through the dust of the ages. Yet, if you listen closely, you may hear the subtle purring flutter through the night sky. Maybe the hairs on the back of your neck may raise, as if indicating that some predator is toying with you as their prey. That shiver you feel on the rooftop during the night, can you be certain that it is merely a subtle cool breeze, or could there be something calling out from nights of the depths of the past to remind you that you were not always safe to be up here? Maybe you still are not, and some ghost during the twilight stalks you and seeks to give you a fright, and remind you of those cats who used to live and fight for their right to rule the rooftops they once called home.
But I will never let go,
never let up my hold,
'cause I know
once you feel it
you can't unfeel it.
once you dream it
you can't undream it.