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The Flame Towers, Baku, Azerbaijan
What a difference a couple of hours can make. Our last day in Baku started in bright blue skies and sunshine, but by the time I had shot the Carpet Museum the weather was on the turn. It's aptly named the "city of winds" for good reason! Standing upright was a concerted effort, let alone attempting to capture a steady shot with or without a tripod.
The fast rolling cloud movement suggested a storm was looming and so we decided to cut our losses and head back to the hotel. Although it didn't rain, it turned out to be a good call, for the wind had now become gale force and the streets had emptied... even the marble stairs were devoid of locals and tourists alike.
So here I am sat in our suite, in my towelling robe like any good Bond villain in his secret hideaway passing the time waiting for the world to end. Surprisingly, you quickly get bored of such events and so I thought I'd pass the time with a few long exposures before the last light had faded and the light show begins... while Mrs R packed.
What a difference a few days can make to a location..... Shot here on Saturday and came away with nothing...... fortunately I had a chance to very quickly get back late this afternoon just as the sun was setting...... This is one of my favourite spots.
Perito Moreno Glacier (Patagonia) 20240207
Perito Moreno Glacier is one of the most impressive natural spectacles in Patagonia. It is a large mass of ice 30 kilometers long, 5 kilometers wide and a height that reaches 60 meters. Their proportions are so great that it is necessary to see them alive to understand them.
One way to observe it is through the walkways of the Perito Moreno glacier, which line the front of the glacier and are 30 kilometers from the entrance to Los Glaciares National Park, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981.
The walkways have three levels and add up to no less than 4 winding kilometers that take up to 300 meters in the vicinity of Perito Moreno. The route is made of stairs and balconies with wooden railings that allow you to see the glacier in the safest way from different perspectives. This trail is built with a modern system of metal truss, which allows a good flow of snow and water. The tours can be covered in several ways, as the paths are intertwined and allow you to appreciate the differences in the ice textures, the blue color and its different tones.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
Three of these guy's were coming through the marsh right at me. But I spooked them before I was able to get a super shot of them. Drat...
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SALVATION THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST - ALONE!
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
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16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the SALVATION of everyone WHO BELIEVES: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel a RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS REVEALED, a righteousness that is by FAITH FROM FIRST TO LAST, just as it is written: "THE RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY FAITH." (Romans 1:16-17)
16 KNOW that a man is NOT justified by observing the law, but by FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be JUSTIFIED BY FAITH in CHRIST and NOT by observing the law, BECAUSE BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED. (Galatians 2:16)
1. Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2. BY THIS GOSPEL YOU ARE SAVED, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4. that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5. and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8. and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9. For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11. Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)
7. Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. 8. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9. I am the gate; whoever enters through me WILL BE SAVED. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10. The thief comes only to STEAL and KILL and DESTROY; I have come that they may have LIFE, and have it to the FULL. (John 10:7-10)
1 Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3 Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4 Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
5 Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: "The man who does these things will live by them." 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 "or 'Who will descend into the deep?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11 As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:1-13)
Jesus came to bring spiritual LIFE to the spiritually dead and set the captives FREE! FREE from RELIGION, ERROR and outright LIES, so WE might serve THE LIVING GOD! In SPIRIT and in TRUTH!
So you'll KNOW, and not think you're to bad for God to love. The Christian LIFE isn't about how good WE are, because NONE of us are! It's about how GOOD JESUS IS! Because JESUS LOVES US, so much he died in our place and took the punishment for all of our sins on himself. The wages of sin is DEATH, and Jesus took the death WE so richly deserved for us and died in our place. The good news is, there's no more punishment for sin left. WE, you and I were all born forgive as a result of the crucifixion of God himself on the cross that took away the sins of the whole world. All we have to do is believe it, and put your Faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. That my friends is REAL UNCONDITIONAL LOVE! YOU ARE LOVED. ❤️ ✝️ ❤️
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished archive shot and a great example of the simple fact that some people are more relaxed and easily flattered than others. Enjoy!
Blackcap - Sylvia Atrcapilla (M)
The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) usually known simply as the blackcap, is a common and widespread typical warbler. It has mainly olive-grey upperparts and pale grey underparts, and differences between the five subspecies are small. Both sexes have a neat coloured cap to the head, black in the male and reddish-brown in the female. The male's typical song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, but a simpler song is given in some isolated areas, such as valleys in the Alps. The blackcap's closest relative is the garden warbler, which looks quite different but has a similar song.
The blackcap feeds mainly on insects during the breeding season, then switches to fruit in late summer, the change being triggered by an internal biological rhythm. When migrants arrive on their territories they initially take berries, pollen and nectar if there are insufficient insects available, then soon switch to their preferred diet. They mainly pick prey off foliage and twigs, but may occasionally hover, flycatch or feed on the ground. Blackcaps eat a wide range of invertebrate prey, although aphids are particularly important early in the season, and flies, beetles and caterpillars are also taken in large numbers. Small snails are swallowed whole, since the shell is a source of calcium for the bird's eggs. Chicks are mainly fed soft-bodied insects, fruit only being provided if invertebrates are scarce.
In July, the diet switches increasingly to fruit. The protein needed for egg-laying and for the chicks to grow is replaced by fruit sugar which helps the birds to fatten for migration. Aphids are still taken while they are available, since they often contain sugars from the plant sap on which they feed. Blackcaps eat a wide range of small fruit, and squeeze out any seeds on a branch before consuming the pulp. This technique makes them an important propagator of mistletoe. The mistle thrush, which also favours that plant, is less beneficial since it tends to crush the seeds. Although any suitable fruit may be eaten, some have seasonal or local importance; elder makes up a large proportion of the diet of northern birds preparing for migration, and energy-rich olives and lentisc are favoured by blackcaps wintering in the Mediterranean.
The German birds wintering in British gardens rely on provided food, and the major items are bread and fat, each making up around 20% of the diet; one bird survived the whole winter eating only Christmas cake. Fruit is also eaten, notably cotoneaster (41% of the fruit consumed), ivy and honeysuckle, and apple if available. Some birds have learned to take peanuts from feeders. Blackcaps defend good winter food sources in the wild, and at garden feeding stations they repel competitors as large as starlings and blackbirds. Birds occasionally become tame enough to feed from the hand.
Aristotle, in his History of Animals, considered that the garden warbler eventually metamorphosed into a blackcap. The blackcap's song has led to it being described as the "mock nightingale" or "country nightingale", and John Clare, in "The March Nightingale" describes the listener as believing that the rarer species has arrived prematurely. "He stops his own and thinks the nightingale/Hath of her monthly reckoning counted wrong". The song is also the topic of Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli's "La Capinera" [The Blackcap].
Giovanni Verga's 1871 novel Storia di una capinera, according to its author, was inspired by a story of a blackcap trapped and caged by children. The bird, silent and pining for its lost freedom, eventually dies. In the book, a nun evacuated from her convent by cholera falls in love with a family friend, only to have to return to her confinement when the disease wanes. The novel was adapted as films of the same name in 1917, 1943 and 1993. The last version was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and its English-language version was retitled as Sparrow. In Saint François d'Assise, an opera by Messiaen, the orchestration is based on bird song. St Francis himself is represented by the blackcap.
Folk names for the blackcap often refer to its most obvious plumage feature (black-headed peggy, King Harry black cap and coal hoodie) or to its song, as in the "nightingale" names above. Other old names are based on its choice of nesting material (Jack Straw, hay bird, hay chat and hay Jack). There is a tradition of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm bases being named for birds. A former base near Stretton in Cheshire was called HMS Blackcap.
Population:
UK breeding:
1,200,000 territories
UK wintering:
3,000 bird
Some houses at Spalding, I found the nearest semi-detached houses quite interesting. They share a roof but one neighbour has tiles, the other slates, etc. There's a good bricked-up gateway as well at the start of the row.
Exakta Varex IIa (1960) SLR camera
Zeiss Pancolar 50 mm f/2 lens
Fuji Superia Xtra 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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I love all the retro beer signs at Grumpy's. And the red velvet wallpaper!
© Web-Betty: digital heart, analog soul
The more I explore the 55mm f1.4 range of lenses more they look alike. Small differences and tweaking of the same design that is very similar to Zeiss Planar 55mm for Contarex cameras, create similar photos.
Curiously, this lens flares like Tomioka (Yashinon) lenses.
There is a difference in altitude of 3400 m (11 155 feet) between the bottom of Death Valley and the top of Telescope Peak, only 300 m (1000 feet) less than altitude between Everest summit and the base camp...!
Obviously the same village church in Pulham St Mary. Taken with the same in camera Fuji settings for jpeg as the other day and from a similar position. The only real significant change is the natural light between the two days. The building itself seems to change in terms of texture! I much prefer the first image for the light but I thought it was interesting the difference between the light conditions and why we chase it so much. Anyway I decided to post this today.
What a difference a couple weeks makes!
This was the scene at MP 83 on the Boston and Albany on the Friday morning before Halloween. What a different scene from when I shot here two weeks prior as seen in this image: flic.kr/p/2jW9fTk
Reminding me more of Alaska, winter swept in with an October Surprise this morning nearly two months before its official start.
But the trains keep rolling as they always do...be it sun or clouds, rain or snow, some things are consistent as they have been here for some 180 years on the rails of the old Boston and Albany.
This is just another Q436 (Selkirk to Worcester manifest) pulling in to work the yard this time with only a single unit up front.
Palmer, Massachusetts
Friday October 30, 2020
Im Spätherbst fuhr ich bereits schon einmal diesen Weg durch Thüringen. Es war damals ein trüber Morgen. Heute war ich kurz vor dem Sonnenuntergang unterwegs...
Überwältigt vom Unterschied, den lediglich ein paar Sonnenstrahlen und ein imposanter Himmel machen können, muss ich euch hier noch mal beide Bilder zeigen!
The same spot on the Eldred river with high water flows, shutter speeds of 1/20 and 1/640 of a second.
18th December 2020:
What a difference a day makes. Raining again and blowing a howler, so a quick photo out of the hall window of the December view.
Hadn't got the camera on the right settings, but then couldn't be bothered with a retake. Partly because as I'm also waiting for important news from my sister and don't want to be far from the laptop.
Today's Silly News it's : National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/national-ugly-christmas-sweater-d...
I haven't even got a Christmas jumper, but the one Graham has is rather a good one.
Or : National Roast Suckling Pig Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/national-roast-suckling-pig-day-d...
Oh, if only, it sounds delicious.
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After a long hiatus, unfortunately, I have returned. Less like Douglas fucking McCarthur and more like General Herpes. I dont know how long this particular outbreak will last, long enough to be disruptive but not long enough to make a difference?