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The Voyage
I am a sailor and your my first mate,
We signed on together and coupled our fate,
Hauled up the anchor determined not to fail,
For the hears treasure together we sailed.
Life is an ocean and love is a boat.
In troubled waters it keeps us afloat,
At the start of the voyage there was just me and you,
Now gathered round us we have our own crew.
This song was written by Luka Bloom and recorded by Christy Moore.
Heres a link. Its well worth a listen!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_surYSjPZQA
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Just in passing, the pine trees growing on the right are Corsican Pines [ Pinus Nigra ] or called Black Pines.
They are a long way from home here but they thrive on light sandy soils and salt spray doesn`t bother them.
These trees have been here over 70 years as I remember them from my childhood. It took a lot of research to find out what species they were as pines are very difficult to recognise.
Am I a Nerd? No! Not in the least!!!!! Hopefully!!!!!! Lol!
Thanks to all you great people here on Flickr for your wonderful interest and your inspiration to me and so many otheres!
Pat.
An unusual sight .. a wombat at the beach. He was pretty determined, moved at quite a pace and swam across a small creek to get there.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Khalil Gibran
Thanks a lot to my friend Dheeraj for his patience and co-operation.
LIFE IS A DRAMA TAKE PART IN IT WITH YOUR HEART AND SOUL
Determined Racoon eating the bird seed that he previously knocked out of the feeder while it is raining, must be hungry, shot in North Carolina.
I decided to post this as a less “faded” companion to my previous image, Shadow to my Light. This photo was taken in my neighborhood, on one of those winter days when the weather is cloudy and dreary all day and then the sky suddenly lightens along the horizon and the sun makes an appearance just in time to illuminate a beautiful afternoon sunset.
These unexpected sunsets, in a time of year marked by long nights and skies seemingly perpetually arrayed in endless shades of gray, always spark a sense of joy for me. And I can feel a lightness rising in my heart as I watch the sun determinedly burn its way through the clouds and thread the sky with ribbons of light and color in a triumphant celebration of victory over winter’s gloom.
If you climb to the top of two-tired Virginia Falls in Glacier National Park, you will be fascinated with the views. It starts with sparkling crystal clear water in a riverbed lined with striking colorful pebbles of different shades of red and green. At formation, small amounts of iron in their composition combined with varying oxygen levels determined their colors. Red means oxygen was present and green means the air was lacking oxygen.
You see a gorgeous two-tiered waterfall that seems to vanish into what was once a lush forest when looking down the slope. A past forest fire left its scars on the land. Raise your eyes higher, and you see some of the towering peaks found in Glacier National Park.
I was determined to wring something painterly from my Helios 44-2 58 amd mounted it on my Nikon D850 using a Nikon PK 11A teleconverter with the thin type m42 adapter. I used a wide open aperture for this shot but did stop down as far as f/5.6 for some shots. I honestly thought I had some wonderful painterly bokeh when checking the LCD.. sadly I didn't notice that the tiny flowerhead of the Stitchwort in all my shots had a sort of glow around them..I have noticed the same thing from other lenses but hadn't used the Helios in years and never on the Nikon. The only way to stop this looking a bit err, a lot spectral imho, was to use the paintbrush in photoshop and carefully paint away the offending glow from just around the white petals and burn the detail back into the petals. The annoying thing was the histogram looked perfect with no blown highlights. The spectral glow simply a feature of that lens...
I started to catch up with everyone yesterday btw but as I cook dinner as my family come on a Wednesday as well as fetching Leo from school and collecting his guitar from his home on the way etc etc, I am still behind as time was short so my apologies....Sue :)
On January 3, 2023 I was out with my camera in Logan County when notification was received on my phone that a tornado warning had just been issued. The warning ended my shoot and I called my wife to let her know I was heading home. As I approached an overpass I noticed this scene with a very threatening sky to the east, but the fields in front of me were still brightly lit from the golden hour sunshine coming from the southwest. I pulled my SUV to the side of the road and got out to photograph the scene.
When all was said and done, there were eight confirmed tornados to the east and northeast of Springfield that afternoon landing in Sangamon, Logan, Macon, and McLean counties in central Illinois. Three were determined by the NWS to be EF-1, two were EF-0, and three were unknown. Fortunately, there were no reports of injuries and the most visible damage was to farm outbuildings.
Seen here in the distance is Viper Mine, now closed, with its coal conveyor parallel on the north side of 600th St. in Logan County.
I was determined to get some sunrays, but had to work for them. I must have looked very odd, ducking and weaving through the trees looking for that right spot. The sun was not playing and rays were in short supply but managed to bag a few. This wonderful arch of branches reaped quite a few images that you will see during the week, but they framed the sunlight perfectly for this image.
Taken at Brush Hill Nature Reserve, Buckinghamshire
RKO_7166. Close up of a hunting red fox on top of a red dune.
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These little roses seem determined to keep blooming. I think this is a lesson for all of us. Don't give up even in the toughest of circumstances!
Wishing everyone a good week. Thanks so much for your visits!!
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A determined-looking Black-winged Stilt decides to take-off from an agricultural wetland; image captured in Hong Kong
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With all the processing options available today, it seems we become programmed to look at photos and immediately analyze what might be done to tweak them to make them better in some way. I recall when I first began photography 8 or so years ago, I knew nothing about anything and thus deleted at least 90% of my photos upon review, often all of them. Now, even though I still don't know much, I delete none on the basis of being possibly able to do something with them. Sometimes I do with pleasing results. Most of the time I do not and they remain buried in the archives where they will probably never do more than take up space.
When this view of the far north end of the lake (where the turtles bask in the spring and summer but have now already vanished into their hibernational haunts) appeared, now habitual thinking said, "what does this need?" I thought for a while and finally determined that there was really nothing I could do to make this photo better. Different maybe, but not better. Perhaps you agree.
So here you have it...an actual unenhanced SOOC snap shot of my beloved northwoods entering prime time for color. Maybe not too artsy...but still kind of pretty...;-))
a determined poppy grew from a crevice in the rock face at Coyote Hills Park in Fremont, CA. Happy Sliders Sunday!
- makeup: Rubedo (ava)
- hair: Vanity Hair (35)
- eyes: Repulse (toxic)
- body tattoo: Lilithe (lukthu)
- top: Wicca's Originals (lethia)
- skin: YS&YS (marta)
- head: LeLutka (avalon)
- body: Maitreya (lara)
For some reason, people have been telling me what they think of me recently. I've had scary (x2), determined, disciplined, amiable, enthusiastic and anally retentive. Don't I sound like a barrel of laughs 😂 Here I employed determination to get out of bed at 1:30am 😁
Don't think I've posted this one before, the wider view from my amazing morning on Latrigg.
Determined to not let these highly caffeinated monsters beat me this year, I set out for the battle. Well today was the day, They were kind enough to stand still for a blink of an eye.
"Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I vow to cultivate compassion and learn ways to protect lives of people, animals, plants,and minerals.I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any killing "
~Thich Nhat Hanh
The little man is determined to keep the streets clear for Santa...
Skippy envisioned his universe with the help of the following incredible creations:
Bad Unicorn's Mister Plow Lounger, which is available at The Men's Dept. (TMD)!
Bad Unicorn's Tower Blocks, which are part of the Endz Backdrop Collection, available at the Arcade!
Toro's Bangkok Chinatown Apartments, which are available at TMD!
NOMAD's Snow Rocks and Snow Walls, which are part of the Snow Landscaping Pack, available at Collabor88!
And the little snow shoveler wears the following warm clothing:
Deadwool's Deserter Jacket, available at TMD!
BellEquipe Design Store's Gloves!
Vale Koer's Tactical Flip Boots!
Stay warm, and keep shining your light, my friends!
If you are determined to stand, nothing can move you...if you are determined to move,nothing can stop you.Determination is the key!
Like cream mixing in a cup of coffee, atmospheric winds swirl clouds into eye appealing patterns determined by mixing boundaries and turbulence. Note also the subtle iridescence at the bottom edge of the cloud created by diffraction of light through the cloud droplets.
Think of the long trip home.
Should we have stayed at home
and thought of here?
Where should we be today?
Is it right to be watching strangers
in a play in this strangest of theatres?
What childishness is it that
while there’s a breath of life
in our bodies, we are determined
to rush to see the sun
the other way around?
The tiniest green hummingbird
in the world? To stare at some
inexplicable old stonework,
inexplicable and impenetrable,
at any view, instantly seen
and always, always delightful?
Oh, must we dream our dreams
and have them, too?
And have we room for one more
folded sunset, still quite warm?
--Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Hello to all my Flickr friends. As many of you know, just over a year ago my beautiful wife Marilyn had a stroke. Her road to recovery has had its ups and downs. Last February, she came home from the rehab hospital in a wheelchair, but by late spring she was able to walk short distances with the aid of a walker. She was gaining strength and more independence with each passing day. Unfortunately, this past November she had two falls, with the second one putting her back in the hospital. But again, her strong determination has resulted in her fighting through the pain as a result of the falls, and the limitations caused by the stroke. Another Christmas and New Year day in hospital, but she will be home soon. I took this photograph over forty years ago when I was shooting and developing black and white film with my Canon 35 mm SLR camera. I love her look of determination, which has been one of her qualities ever since I’ve known her. This determined spirit has been very strong over the course of this past year.
For all of us, this past year has been difficult, but we must always look forward to the New Year and tackle any challenges, good or bad, that come our way. So, to all of you, a very Happy and healthy New Year.
My participation on Flickr will continue to be limited in the coming new year, but hopefully by the summer I will return on a more regular basis.
The film that I used for this photograph was Kodak Tri-X pushed to 1600 ISO using Diafine developer to process the negatives.