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What a difference a day makes. South of Fort William looking towards Ballachulish.
Loch Linnhe (/lɒx ˈlɪni/) is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland. The part upstream of Corran is known in Gaelic as An Linne Dhubh (the black pool, originally known as Loch Abar), and downstream as An Linne Sheileach (the salty pool). The name Linnhe is derived from the Gaelic word linne, meaning "pool".
Loch Linnhe follows the line of the Great Glen Fault, and is the only sea loch along the fault.About 50 kilometres (31 mi) long, it opens onto the Firth of Lorne at its southwestern end. The part of the loch upstream of Corran is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) long and an average of about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) wide. The southern part of the loch is wider, and its branch southeast of the island of Lismore is known as the Lynn of Lorne. Loch Eil feeds into Loch Linnhe at the latter's northernmost point, while from the east Loch Leven feeds in the loch just downstream of Corran and Loch Creran feeds into the Lynn of Lorne. The town of Fort William lies at the northeast end of the loch, at the mouth of the River Lochy.
Can you find ten differences between the two images? This was one of my favorite childhood activities. You'll have to go big.
I spotted this woman and thought I'd take a shot and put something on the backside of her sign. Not sure what was on the front, but I believe she was seeking donations.
These Gritstone rock formations are towards the western edge of the Kinder Plateau in the Peak District National Park. Weathered and eroded by the elements over millennia they provide a fascinating moonscape with endless photo opportunities.
//What a disaster
William Saunderson-Meyer says the floods just another blow to a province that was already on its knees
KwaZulu-Natal has declared a provincial state of disaster to try to cope with the devastating floods of the past week.
This is normally a temporary mechanism of which the primary purpose is to facilitate speedy national government assistance to hard-pressed provincial and local authorities. It also triggers the release of emergency funds from the National Treasury.
But in KZN’s case, they might as well make it permanent. This is a province that has been on its knees for some time and it ain’t getting up any time soon.
After all, KZN hasn’t even staunched the bloodied nose it suffered nine months ago. That’s when one wing of the African National Congress government — the Radical Economic Transformation followers of former president Jacob Zuma — tried to bury the other — the so-called reformists led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
KZN hasn’t even properly tallied the body blows it suffered then. The official estimates for the insurrection were 45,000 businesses affected, R50bn in economic damage, 129,000 jobs lost, and 354 killed.
These estimates are probably on the low side. For example, the number of people who were killed in the mayhem doesn’t include the many whose bodies were simply never found and counted.
And the true economic cost is incalculable. There’s been substantially increased emigration of minorities, cancelled investment, and the loss of international confidence in KZN as a safe tourist destination. In at least a dozen small, country towns, all the business infrastructure was destroyed, paradoxically by the very people who worked and shopped in those buildings.
Now the floods. The death toll is over 300 and still rising. Some 6,000 homes have been destroyed and road, water sewage and electrical infrastructure uprooted. As I write this, roaming mobs are opportunistically plundering container depots, stranded trucks, abandoned homes and vulnerable businesses, reportedly unhindered — as was the case during last year’s riots — by the police and army.
Naturally, no disaster is complete without a scapegoat. Ramaphosa, as is his style, was quick off the mark to finger the culprit — climate change.
“This disaster is part of climate change. It is telling us that climate change is serious, it is here,” Ramaphosa told reporters while inspecting a devastated Durban. “We no longer can postpone what we need to do, and the measures we need to take to deal with climate change.”
What balderdash. Whatever role climate change may or may not have played in the larger scheme of things, it’s nonsense to pin on it responsibility for the plight of KZN. That lies with the ANC government.
First, this was not an unforeseeable bolt from the heavens. The forecasters warned months back that this was likely to be an exceptionally wet summer because of the La Niña weather pattern that occurs every few years.
There are also historical precedents for extreme weather in KZN, which a prudent administration would have taken note of.
In 1984, Tropical Storm Domoina wreaked havoc in a swathe from Mozambique, through Swaziland to KZN. Although the current downpour is worse, the scale is nevertheless in the same ballpark.
This latest storm — as yet unnamed — dumped 450mm of rain on Durban in 48 hours. Domoina let loose 615mm in 24 hours on Swaziland and northern KZN.
But the true difference between those events, 38 years apart, lies in the lack of preparedness on the part of today’s authorities. In 1984 the SA Air Force deployed 25 helicopters to airlift people to safety. In the 2000 Mozambique floods, 17 SAAF helicopters rescued more than 14,000 people.
This time, according to a News24 report, the SA Police Service and the SAAF, combined, have been unable to put a single chopper in the air. The erosion of South Africa’s military means that of the SAAF’s 39 Oryx helicopters, only 17 are serviceable.
Durban-based 15 Squadron has not a single helicopter available for search and rescue — they are reportedly primarily used as VIP transport — but two SAAF choppers supposedly have been despatched from Gqeberha to help. The SAPS airwing has only one serviceable helicopter but “the pilot on duty has been booked off sick”.
Second, throughout the province, local government is also in a state of disaster and unable to do its job. The scale of the KZN impairment can be measured in the flood destruction of homes.
Some 4,000 shanties have been destroyed, many because officialdom was too lax to forbid building on the floodplain and against precariously unstable hillsides. Another 2,000 of the homes swept away were so-called RDP houses, shoddily built during the kickback-and-steal bonanza of the government’s Reconstruction and Development Programme of the late 1990s.
In Durban, the eThekwini metro is bloated and inert. It carries a rates and services debt of R17bn, of which R1bn is owed by the national government.
Durban is also infamously corrupt. Former mayor Zandile Gumede — along with 21 co-accused — is facing fraud, corruption and money-laundering charges in connection with a R320m municipal tender.
Yet at the weekend, even as the rain was bucketing down, she won the ANC’s regional leadership contest hands-down, despite the party’s supposed “step-aside when accused” rule.
The ANC-aligned Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has no illusions about the party it supports. It issued a statement calling on the government to ensure that unlike the plundering of Covid-19 emergency relief funds, the KZN disaster funds were not stolen or misused.
Fat chance. The ANC has already announced that its parliamentary constituency offices in KZN would become “hubs for humanitarian support” and appealed for the donation of relief supplies. Watch the trousering by the ANC’s public representatives of anything that the public is dumb enough to leave with them.
It’s in KZN where the ANC’s brazen indifference to the law and antipathy towards the Constitution is at its most obvious and most destructive.
On Monday, Zuma's corruption trial once again failed to take off in the Pietermaritzburg High Court when he successfully blocked the process with another round of delaying legal actions. His lawyers also had some carefully threatening words for the judiciary in a separate Supreme Court of Appeal action.
They urged SCA President Mandisa Maya to reconsider the dismissal of his latest corruption prosecution challenges. They warned that last year’s deadly July unrest was “in part, traceable to a perceived erroneous and unjust judicial outcome” that put Zuma briefly in prison for contempt of court.
“When such conceived mistakes are committed, the citizens (wrongly) feel entitled to resort to self-help…”
Floods, fires and locusts are devastating but at least happen relatively rarely. The ANC, alas, is a seemingly unending plague.
Fred Olsen Cruise Lines MV BODUCCIA heading for Greenock's Ocean Terminal. She has classic lines, a difference from modern behemoths.
She was one of three near-identical ships ordered by different companies for Royal Viking Line service.
Vessel Details: Royal Viking Star-Class Cruise Ship
Vessel Name: MV BOUDICA
IMO: 7218395
MMSI: 30996400
Call Sign: C6VA3
Class: Det Norske Veritas
Length: 206.96m
Beam: 25.22m
Draught: 7.55m
Builder: Wärtsilä Hietalahti Shipyard at Helsinki Finland.
Gross Tonnage: 28,372gt
Previous names:
ROYAL VIKING SKY
SUNWARD
BIKA QUEEN
SUNWARD
GOLDEN PRINCESS
SUPERSTAR CAPRICORN
HYUNDAI KEUMGANG
SUPERSTAR CAPRICORN
GRAND LATINO
BOUDICCA
Comparing the LE 2500 Snow Queen Elsa 17'' Doll (November 2013) versus LE 5000 Frozen Fever Elsa 17'' Doll (November 2015). They have similar appearances and outfits, but also many differences. Lying down side by side, with open capes. SQ Elsa's cape is shorter, but much wider. Its bottom edge is circular and the sides are straight. FF Elsa's cape has a square shape with pointed corners at the bottom and the sides.
SQ Elsa has a darker face, with pale purplish skin, longer eyelashes and darker makeup giving her smoky eyes, darker rouge. Their braids are about the same length and style, but FF Elsa has neater hair on top, and in the back (which is helped by being tied down with nylon thread). SQ Elsa has two jeweled 8 sided snowflakes in her hair, FF Elsa has three pink 6 sided flowers in her braid, and a larger one on the side of her head.
Their outfits are similar, with a slinky one piece dress with a slit in the skirt, and a permanently attached cape that is jeweled and has embroidered decorations. SQ Elsa has embroidered snowflakes in the cape, but only jewels (rectangular and round) in her dress. FF Elsa has a jeweled and embroidered floral design in her cape and her bodice, but no decorations in her skirt. However FF Elsa's cape is heavily decorated in the back of the cape, whereas SQ Elsa's cape has decorations only on the sides and bottom, so the back of the cape is almost bare (except on the bottom). SQ Elsa's cape has a round bottom edge, that is much wider than FF Elsa's cape, and is also longer on the sides. So it can wrap around and cover much of the front of the dress, and drags on the floor all around. SQ Elsa's skirt is also longer than floor length, and much wider at the bottom than the FF Elsa's skirt, which doesn't quite reach the floor. SQ Elsa's dress has full length sheer sleeves, while FF Elsa's dress is basically sleeveless. Finally their high heeled shoes have the same design, representing snowflakes and icicles. But SQ Elsa's shoes are opaque light blue with dark blue striations, whereas FF Elsa's are transparent light green that are also iridescent and have embedded fine glitter. FF Elsa's shoes are much more impressive.
In general, FF Elsa has a much brighter appearance. But SQ Elsa is closer to the character's true nature, and of course her iconic image. And her outfit is much more impressive to me despite the lack of details in the cape compared to the FF cape. So SQ Elsa is my favorite of the two.
Release and purchase information:
2013 Elsa Limited Edition Doll - 17'' - Frozen
$99.95
Item No. 6070040900950P
US Disney Store
Released online and in store on 2013-11-20
Sold out online in about 15 minutes
Purchased in store 2013-11-20
#102 of 2500
2015 Limited Edition Elsa Doll - Frozen Fever - 17''
$119.95
Item No. 6003040901307P
US Disney Store
Released in stores 2015-11-03
Released online 2015-11-04
Sold out online in less than 10 minutes
Purchased in store 2015-11-03
#1559 of 5000
I have not done any land art for quite a while now so I was pleased to be able to get out and do some today in the lovely Forest of Bowland.
The weather was very murky with low cloud when I got up this morning, it did not look very inspiring but I hoped it would be like yesterday and we would see the sun around lunch time which we did.
I was only about a third of the way through this sculpture when Richard informed me that I had put it on the wrong side of the tree where there would be no sun! I immediately threw a land art wobbly and said I was not doing it any more, mainly because I was very cold and my hands were stiff from being so cold, I had already done the Stick V sculpture and had also collected mud from the river so being told it was in the wrong place did not go down too well!!
I was persuaded to carry on regardless and to learn from my mistake the next time! I did carry on with it and started to relax as it took shape. By the time I had finished the sun had disappeared again anyway, so it did not make any difference in this particular sculpture, but I will take note next time where the sun is as I would have been so cross if I had missed it!
I had a good day and now I am looking forward to dinner and a glass of wine or two. Looking forward to the next land art day! :)
35mm film, sooc
pentax k1000 for the first exposure, then ran through my pentax honeywell spotmatic for the second
Ommited illustration for an article on similarities and differences between Artificial Image Generation and Concept Art on Screenpunk website
What a difference a few moments can make! The image below (which I uploaded in Sept 2007) is still one of my personal favorites. It's considered one of my "most interesting" photos by flickr, but has never made explore which doesn't really matter to me. Feel free to check it out, if you've never seen it before. Have a great Saturday, everyone!
P.S. I'm sorry I wasn't able to visit yesterday. I was gone all day. I've got lots of catching up to do.
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Feb 28, 2026
CC Week 9: One Still, One Moving
According to the challenge:
* The aim is to show calm and motion in the same frame, using blur to highlight the difference between the two.
* Any camera or device can be used, and the emphasis is on creativity and clarity of concept rather than technical skill.
* Or put simply: one thing stays still, one thing moves.
Easier said than done!
Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to hold one hand still while moving the other?
This is not the result I was working to get, but after messing around for nearly 2 hours, I called it quits for today.