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With the lack of opportunity to move freely during Covid 19, I decided to take a series of shots of reflections in the local streams, ponds, ditches and a short stretch of the River Thames. This one was taken next to Hampton Court Bridge.
Currently on Temporary loan to CT+ for route 20 is Stagecoach Leytons 10113 & 10114. Pictured at Bakers Arms is 10113 after receiving a curtailment.
Currently experiencing blizzard conditions here in Washington DC and only us foolish pedestrians have taken to the streets. This is Q street near 17th.
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I have always granted myself the freedom to exercise artistic license and pursue whatever brings me joy. Currently, shots from my cellphone and digital AI artwork fulfill that purpose, at least for the time being.
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Common Goosander (female) - Mergus Merganser
River Nidd Pateley Bridge - Yorkshire
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georgia aquarium.
atlanta, georgia.
not very representative of an aquarium, i know, but being on vacation with limited time and computer resources dictated i upload this image from the main lobby area of the georgia aquarium, which, i understand, is the world's largest.
other than conversion from nef (raw) to jpg with nikon's free viewnx, this is otherwise sooc.
see you more regularly after the 22nd!
Current River at Round Spring
Ozark National Scenic Riverway
Shannon County, Missouri
And so my astrophotography learning curve begins...
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Welch Spring and ruins of Welch Hospital along Current River - National Scenic Riverways Missouri. Near Akers Ferry.
8 meter(26.2 feet) high statue was created in the mid-fourteenth century , destroyed during the 2WW , the current figure was rebuilt from the remains of sculpture and a new cover with Venetian mosaic.
Coombe Hill. Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.
July 2023.
The White-tailed bumblebee is actually a complex of three species which includes the Cryptic White-tailed bumblebee (Bombus cryptarum) and the Northern White-tailed bumblebee (Bombus magnus). These three species are currently only reliably distinguished by DNA testing. (Bumblebee Conservation Trust).
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Le Stupa de Bodnath, Katmandou, Népal
Bodnath fut pendant longtemps le point d'arrivée des caravanes qui traversaient l'Himalaya. On venait y remercier Bouddha lorsque le voyage s'était bien déroulé. Les yeux de Bouddha peints aux quatre points cardinaux posent un regard observateur sur les Hommes et leurs actions. Cet important centre de pèlerinage bouddhiste date du XIVème siècle Une foule de pèlerins népalais mais aussi tibétains s’y retrouve pour accomplir la kora (circumambulation rituelle) et faire tourner les moulins à prières renfermant les paroles sacrées « Om Mane Padme Um ».
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The Boudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal
The great stupa of Boudhanath in Kathmandu is one of the largest in Nepal and a major pilgrimage site as well as tourist attraction. It is thought to have been built in the late 6th century CE by a king of the Nepalese Licchavi Kingdom .The first stupa was wrecked by Mughal invaders in the 14th century, so the current stupa is a more recent construction.
The current Parish Church in the beautiful Tyrolean town of Neustift was consecrated to St. George in 1780. From the outside, the church, a Rococo building in the village centre, looks very simple. The interior is, however, is quite magnificent and furnished with frescoes by renowned masters. The beautiful graveyard contains the grave of the “Glacier Parson” and co-founder of the Alpine Association, Franz Senn.
The church was built from plans by the clergyman and church designer Franz de Paula Penz, whose buildings can be found all over Tyrol.
This is a close-up photo of sunlight refracting through water patterns in a shallow stream flowing across Clam Harbour Beach.
above the paringa river. early evening the sun has left the valley but is still warming the tops.
after trying several versions - this is currently my best attempt... hmm mask selection of the background /skyline needs more work.
Worked in Lightroom.
Stóra-Dimon | Suðurland (South Iceland)
This is the last photo I'll be posting from our recent trip to Iceland. However, because there were species we either didn't see or didn't get many shots of this time round - such as the Rock Ptarmigan - I'm going to be adding a few previously unpublished images from our last visit in 2015. Whilst I enjoyed both trips, I don't think we'll be returning, so I'm going to use this opportunity to make sure my Flickr Iceland album contains all the photos I want it to, particularly as the album I had on my original website is now effectively lost.
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WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY ADVENTURES
'the experiences, the places, the species and more ....'
In respect of my new 'reincarnated' website www.tickspics.com I'm still spending all my current free time in trying to make it 'mobile friendly' - a rather thankless, but necessary task to comply with Google's SEO requirements. As soon as that is out of the way, I'll be regularly adding new content including an extended write-up about both our Iceland trips.
The 95/Dan Ryan station is currently the southern terminus of the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line and is one of the busiest stops in the system, behind the Clark/Lake station. Located at 14 West 95th Street in Chicago, Illinois (directional coordinates 9500 south, 14 west), the station is situated in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway. Trains take 30 minutes to travel to the Loop, and 66 minutes to reach Howard.
Approximately 50,000 people go through the terminal every day. Many commuters from the far south side or suburbs connect to 95th Street via the CTA bus system. It is the farthest south stop in the CTA system. In 2006 Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. announced plans to extend Red Line service further south. Proposed new stations would include 103rd Street, 111th Street, 115th Street/Michigan Avenue ending at 130th Street/Stony Island Avenue.
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Bay City's City Hall is a remarkable example of Richardsonian Romanesque landmark built in 1897. The Bay City City Hall Has been preserved and restored to it's current beautiful condition. I have photographed its interior and details several times over the last few years. Some examples are contained in my Bay City album: www.flickr.com/photos/110399462@N02/albums/72157651820670...
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... coffee every morning with Max Lucado is my current therapy du jour. That's Lucado with a long "A" and I found that out listening to some of Max's Upwords on his website:
I've resisted the impulse to go to Max's website, highlight and copy some of his best stories and paste them here for you to read. If you want to read Max Lucado, do it the right way. Go buy one of his books or go check one out at your library. You owe it to yourself to take him seriously.
Day before yesterday I had a big grin at one of Max's stories. He tells of going to the church gym to play basketball. The players are made up of a diverse age and size variety, Max calls the "flat bellies" and the "fat bellies."
The flat bellies are agile and admired for their precision moves. They score a high percentage of baskets as the morning workout progresses. They are however, very tolerant and respectful of the fat bellies.
the fat bellies are very respectful of the flat bellies and admire their precision moves, their high basket scores and their youth and vitality.
The flat bellies respect the fat bellies because the fat bellies have the keys to the gymnasium in their pockets.
We all need to go through life remembering who has the keys to the gymnasium in their pocket.
I'd heard this story before, probably in one of Sherry's sermons (she's been reading Max Lucado for years).
Two battleships have been in stormy seas for days on manuevers off the Pacific Coast. In the early morning hours, still stormy with visibility at near zero, the intercom crackles "forward lookout to bridge, there's a light dead ahead." Because of the weather, the Captain has remained on the bridge and responds, "Forward lookout, this is the Captain, keep observing the light and tell me if it moves starboard or port or remains steady. If it remains steady it means we are on collision course."
A little while later the forward lookout reports the light is remaining steady. The captain sends a signalman out who flashes the message. "Light off point bow, change your course twenty degrees." From the light there comes the signal, "You change your course twenty degrees." The captain has the signalman send, "I am the Captain of this vessel and I command you to change your course by twenty degrees." The response comes, "I am a Yeoman 2nd Class and I instruct you to change your course twenty degrees."
Enraged, the Captain has this message sent, "This is a United States Battleship, change your course twenty degrees." From the light comes the response, "This is a lighthouse, change your course twenty degrees."
I don't need to finish this story. But the question that begs being answered is, "How much of our time do we spend demanding that lighthouses change their courses?"
I got Karen's beautiful red sunset shortly after I'd finished my "Coffee with Max" session and this thought came to mind.
An unusually percentage of males have a visual abnormality known in laymen's terms as "red-green color blindness."
During World War II, one of the sad things was the number of qualified young men who wanted to be aircraft pilots, but were color-blind. As I recall, they became bombardiers or navigators or maybe gunners. They can't be policemen. They will live and die and never know what the color "red" looks like.
I've tried to image how you could describe with words the color "red" to someone, to lessen their loss. I haven't even come up with a vague outline.
The question we all need to ask is, "What are our color-blind spots, our blind spots? What are the things we will never be able to fathom because of a flaw in one of the five senses?" If we know ourselves, our strengths (like the keys to the gym in our pocket) and our weaknesses (like color-blindness) and accept them, we'll be better able to deal with life.
Week 4/52: Water
I took this one the day after election day, 2020, so posting it the morning before the inauguration makes some sense to me. Hard to know where we'll go, but it's definitely somewhere.
On an editing note, I wanted to try to make this one look more like a painting. My first go at it!
Essaouira is protected by a natural bay partially shielded by wave action by the Iles Purpuraires. A broad sandy beach extends from the harbour south of Essaourira, at which point the Oued Ksob discharges to the ocean; south of the discharge lies the archaeological ruin, the Bordj El Berod.[1] The Canary Current is responsible for the generally southward movement of ocean circulation and has led to enhancement of the local fishery.[2] The village of Diabat lies about five kilometres south of Essaouira, immediately south of the Oued Ksob.
Essaouria connects to Safi to the north and to Agadir to the south via the N1 road and to Marrakech to the east via the R 207 road. There is a small airport some 7-8 km away from the town, which schedules several flights a week to Casablanca.
The Medina of Essaouira (formerly "Mogador") is a UNESCO World Heritage Listed city, as an example of a late 18th century fortified town, as transferred to North Africa.
The fishing harbour, suffering from the competition of Agadir and Safi remains rather small, although the catches (sardines, conger eels) are surprisingly abundant due to the coastal upwelling generated by the powerful trade winds and the Canaries Current.
There are only a handful of modern purpose-built hotels within the walls of the old city. The medina is home to many small arts and crafts businesses, notably cabinet making and 'thuya' wood-carving (using roots of the Tetraclinis tree), both of which have been practised in Essaouira for centuries.
Essaouira is also renowned for its kitesurfing and windsurfing, with the powerful trade wind blowing almost constantly onto the protected, almost waveless, bay. Several world-class clubs rent top-notch material on a weekly basis.
Parasols tend to be used on the beach as a protection against the wind and the blowing sand. Camel excursions are available on the beach and into the desert band in the interior.
Essaouira is the site of an annual pilgrimage to the grave of Rabbi Chaim Pinto, whose home and synagogue are preserved as an historic and religious site, the Chaim Pinto Synagogue. The Simon Attias Synagogue is also still standing.
It is one of the tallest active volcanoes in Europe, and the tallest peak in Italy south of the Alps with a current height ( July 2021 ) of 3,357 m ( 11,014 ft ) .
When the Monster is half asleep , its fun to climb up in a day trip . Helicopter Ecureuil B3 brings you higher up and gives a look at the smoky exhaust pipe . Pilot is in constant radio contact with a seismologic basis located very close to fly away immediately .
Satellite images reveal that Mount Etna has erupted so much in 2021 that it has grown about 100 feet (30 meters) in height in just six months time .
About . . . . Etna ( click Here ) .
About . . . . Volcanos ( click Here ) .
Clip VIDEO FUTURA . . . . en Francais ( cliquer içi ) .
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Monica, erected in 1985 on Promenade du Père-Marquette, in Lachine borough, Montreal. Artist: Jules Lasalle
The Graslei is a quay in the historic city center of Ghent, Belgium, located on the right bank of the Leie river. The quay opposite of the Graslei is called Korenlei, where I took the picture. Both quays were part of the medieval port and are now a cultural and touristic hotspot of the city, with a high concentration of cafés. The site, with its unique row of historical buildings, is a protected cityscape.
Laid out along the Leie river, close to the mouth in the Scheldt, the site is considered one of the oldest of Ghent, dating back to the fifth century A.D. when Ghent was the center of the wheat trade in the County of Flanders. Most of the current houses on the Graslei date back to the Middle Ages, although the monumental façades have been heavily modified in the 18th and 19th century and were restored in anticipation of the 1913 World's Fair hosted by Ghent. (Wikipedia)
Mr Shahir in action :)
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Lens: Schneider Kreuznach Schneider Xenar 75mm f3.5
Film: Lupa. Antara Kodak Pro 160, Kodak Portra, atau Fuji 160 S.
Light meter: Lunix 4 Selenium Light Meter
Develop: Fujifilm C-41 developer
Currently listening to: Mike Oldfield - Ommandawn 2/3 (warning! flute out of tune)
Been at this Pulitzer Prize winner for a few weeks, and it's incredibly rewarding. Long, detailed, and packed in a tiny font, but very rewarding. A lot of it (so far, 20-25% in) is focused on the compromises and processes of amendments - - reminding us that the Founding Fathers were not a monolithic group, and that they represented only a subset of the American population (no women, no slaves, no Native Americans, and only property holders). Here and there Lepore reminds us of the absences of these voices and the efforts to limit amendments, even as delegates to state constitution conventions may have sought to make it easier for future generations to amend. But again, I'm not very far in.
UPDATE, one third in. I'm now up to about 1861, and it seems like this book isn't about the Constitution itself but about the intersection of the history of the United States and the Constitution... that is, its scope is broader than I expected and more than I wanted. I really wanted greater focus on all the com[promises etc that got us to the original constitution and how it got us to the point where California and Wyonimg have the same number of Senators and how nothing can be done about it. I'm looking at my body clock and doubting I have time for all of the rest of this book, as good as I'm sure it is.
2nd UPDATE, finished. Brilliant book, and a keeper. As rthe history developed and the difficulty of passing and ratifying amendments as outlined in Article V became apparent, other methods were tried. FDR tried to expand SCOTUS to stop them from throwing out New Deal regulations; the juduciary was used to overcome long standing law (Brown vs the BOE, for instance); originalism was developed as a way of reinterpreting decisions seen as activiist (like Roe, which decided we had a right to privacy)... Constitutional conventions were considered risky, opening flood gates to changes one side or the other didn't want to risk. All in all it's a truly great book. You'll need to decide for yourself if a close reading of political and constitutional history is up your alley.
I'm currently listening to Side 2 of Aerial by Kate Bush which is one of my favourite pieces of music. The title seemed very apt.
We went up to the top of the highest hill
And stopped
Still
It was just so beautiful
It was just so beautiful
It was just so beautiful
This is where the shadows come to play
'Twixt the day
And night
Dancing and skipping
Along a chink of light
Somewhere in between
The waxing and the waning wave
Somewhere in between
What the song and silence say
Somewhere in between
The ticking and the tocking clock
Somewhere in a dream between
Sleep and waking up
Somewhere in between
Breathing out and breathing in
Like twilight is neither night nor morning
Not one of us would dare to break
The silence
Oh how we have longed
For something that would
Make us feel soâ?¦
Somewhere…
One of the several owls currently at Steart today , this one coming just a little closer, tho not as close as i would like .
It's always a site (and sound) to behold when CN drags trains up toward Proctor after a delivery of pellets at Dock 6. Especially true when the Missabe maroon veteran is on duty in the afternoon sunlight.
Word is that just a few days later, the 403 would suffer a cracked block and is currently out of service. Would this be one of the last times that the venerable EMD would make this climb? Time will tell.
DMIR 403
CN 5337
IC 6252