I will be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

With my luck, probably when I reach Berkeley CA

Doug Harrop Photography • April 14, 1989

An eastbound Santa Fe train crosses over from Main No. 1 to Main No. 2 at Cable to meet a Southern Pacific train in the Tehachapi Mountains of California.

ATSF 1569 is an EMD SD39, built for the Santa Fe in June 1969.

Lens Samyang 12mm F2.8 Hypergone (fisheye).

.. architeXture .. found in Karlsruhe .. on a walk .. happy Sunday my friends :)

Couple de cormorans huppés

Cap Fréhel

Janvier 2020

I know a lot of people don't like this version of batman and I didn't either at first but it has come to grow on me. I made this mostly to go inside of the batman robot armor I made. You will see that soon.

The ears is a custom peace inspired of the black panther ears. I made them of an antistud and greenstuff. You will see why I didn't just use a regular batman cowl when I show the robot armor.

Other than that the whole figure is painted by me.

- Quelle meilleure occupation en cette radieuse journée si ce n’est celle de laisser tout le loisir à l’astre solaire de darder ses rayons sur nous afin qu’il sèche nos ailes, cher collègue ?

- Hum… Aller à la pêche peut-être ?...

- Pff… Quel rabat-joie vous faites !...

Parc zoologique du Bois de Boulogne

En quelques EXIF

- Distance focale : 295 mm

- Durée d’exposition : 1/320 s à main levée

- Ouverture : f/10,0

- Sensibilité : ISO-100

Merci pour votre visite, commentaire et favori !

Thank you for your visit, comment and favorite!

Danke für euren Besuch, Kommentar und Favorite!

Guêpier d'Europe

Merops apiaster - European Bee-eater

Built Ford Tough

As seen parked in 100 Mile House

Interior of British Columbia

Canada

The first generation of the Ford F-Series (also known as the Ford Bonus-Built trucks) is a series of trucks that was produced by Ford from the 1948 to the 1952 model years. The introduction of the F-Series marked the divergence of Ford car and truck design, developing a chassis intended specifically for truck use. Alongside pickup trucks, the model line included also panel vans, bare and cowled chassis, and marked the entry of Ford into the medium and heavy-duty truck segment.

From 1947 to 1952, Ford assembled F-Series trucks at sixteen different facilities across North America. In Canada, the model line was also marketed through Lincoln-Mercury as the Mercury M-Series to expand dealership coverage in rural areas. This generation of F-Series pickup trucks is the sole generation to entirely Flathead engines (inline-6 and V8s).

Ref: Wikipedia

Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.

Stay Healthy

~Christie

*Best experienced in full screen

The Cape Fear River meets the Atlantic at the southwest point of Bald Head Island, North Carolina

Pentax K-1

SMC Pentax 1:3.5 35mm

Iridient Developer

View On Black for the large size

Owner: Denny Cogley

Ford F1, Production: November 1947–1952, the first-generation of the Ford F-Series (also known as the Ford Bonus-Built trucks) is a series of trucks that was produced by Ford from the 1948 to the 1952 model years. The introduction of the F-Series marked the divergence of Ford car and truck design, developing a chassis intended specifically for truck use. Alongside pickup trucks, the model line included also panel vans, bare and cowled chassis, and marked the entry of Ford into the medium and heavy-duty truck segment.

Across North America, Ford assembled F-Series trucks at sixteen different facilities during its production. In Canada, Lincoln-Mercury sold the F-Series under the Mercury M-Series nameplate to expand coverage in rural areas. The first generation of the F-Series is the sole generation produced entirely with "Flathead" engines (inline-6 and V8).

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

Poison dart frog (also known as dart-poison frog, poison frog or formerly known as poison arrow frog) is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae which are native to tropical Central and South America. These species are diurnal and often have brightly colored bodies. This bright coloration is correlated with the toxicity of the species, making them aposematic. Some species of the family Dendrobatidae exhibit extremely bright coloration along with high toxicity, while others have cryptic coloration with minimal to no amount of observed toxicity. The species that have great toxicity derive this feature from their diet of ants, mites and termites. However, other species that exhibit cryptic coloration, and low to no amounts of toxicity, eat a much larger variety of prey. Many species of this family are threatened due to human infrastructure encroaching on their habitats.

These amphibians are often called "dart frogs" due to the Native Americans' use of their toxic secretions to poison the tips of blowdarts. However, out of over 170 species, only four have been documented as being used for this purpose (curare plants are more commonly used for Native American darts) all of which come from the genus Phyllobates, which is characterized by the relatively large size and high levels of toxicity of its members.

Most species of poison dart frogs are small, sometimes less than 1.5 cm (0.59 in) in adult length, although a few grow up to 6 cm (2.4 in) in length. They weigh 1 oz. on average. Most poison dart frogs are brightly colored, displaying aposematic patterns to warn potential predators. Their bright coloration is associated with their toxicity and levels of alkaloids. For example, frogs of the genus Dendrobates have high levels of alkaloids, whereas Colostethus species are cryptically colored and are not toxic.

Poison dart frogs are an example of an aposematic organism. Their bright coloration advertises unpalatability to potential predators. Aposematism is currently thought to have originated at least four times within the poison dart family according to phylogenetic trees, and dendrobatid frogs have since undergone dramatic divergences – both interspecific and intraspecific – in their aposematic coloration. This is surprising given the frequency-dependent nature of this type of defense mechanism.

Adult frogs lay their eggs in moist places, including on leaves, in plants, among exposed roots, and elsewhere. Once the eggs hatch, the adult piggybacks the tadpoles, one at a time, to suitable water: either a pool, or the water gathered in the throat of bromeliads or other plants. The tadpoles remain there until they metamorphose, in some species fed by unfertilized eggs laid at regular intervals by the mother.

These elements seem to live in conflict with one-another. A green tree, against a firie wall of red surrounded by orange, live together near the canyon floor of Bryce. My final shot of Bryce Canyon, it is a wonderful place for any photographer to create their own special images.

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From Wiki:

Potoos are nocturnal insectivores that lack the bristles around the mouth found in the true nightjars. They hunt from a perch like a shrike or flycatcher. During the day they perch upright on tree stumps, camouflaged to look like part of the stump. The single spotted egg is laid directly on the top of a stump.

The potoos today are exclusively found in the Americas, but they apparently had a much more widespread distribution in the past. Fossil remains of potoos dating from the Eocene have been found in Messel, Germany. It had skull and leg features similar to those of modern potoos, suggesting that it may be an early close relative of the modern potoos. Because the only fossils other than these ancient ones that have been found are recent ones of extinct species, it is unknown if the family once had a global distribution which has contracted, or if the distribution of the family was originally restricted to Europe and has shifted to the Americas.

A 1996 study of the mitochondrial DNA of the potoos supported the monophyly of the family although it did not support the previous assumption that it was closely related to the oilbirds.[5] The study also found a great deal of genetic divergence between the species, suggesting that these species are themselves very old. The level of divergence is the highest of any genus of birds, being more typical of the divergence between genera or even families.

A shot from my foray in the railroad siding I'm glad I took the time to explore a different venue. I didn't expect to fine much, but IMO, it turned up some possibilities for photos.

I think what helped is the divergence and convergence of perspective offered by the tracks and rows of silos.

Now I am ready to expand this railroad venue into seeing if I can find a full fledged yard. That would be outside of St. Paul, I think.

(Galeopterus variegatus borneanus) 022A6119 Bako NP - Sarawak - Malaysia

The "flying Lemur" cannot fly but glides among trees and is strictly arboreal. It is active at night, and feeds on soft plant parts such as young leaves, shoots, flowers, and fruits. After a 60-day gestation period, a single offspring is carried on the mother's abdomen held by a large skin membrane. It is a forest-dependent species.

The Sunda flying Lemurs' two forms are not morphologically distinct from one another; the large form occurs on the mainland of the Sunda Shelf area and the mainland of Southeast Asia, while the dwarf form occurs in central Laos and some other adjacent islands. The Laos specimen is smaller (about 20%) than the other known mainland population. Despite the large and dwarf forms, four subspecies are known: G. v. variegatus (Java), G. v. temminckii (Sumatra), G. v. borneanus (Borneo), and G. v. peninsulae (Peninsular Malaysia and mainland of Southeast Asia) incorporating on the genetic species concept due to geographic isolation and genetic divergence. Recent molecular and morphological data provide the evidence that the mainland, Javan, and Bornean Sunda flying lemur subspecies may be recognised as three separate species in the genus Galeopterus.

(Crystal Brook, Adirondacks, NY)

Rolling downward at a tilt from the forest above, the brook slides over exposed bedrock, bubbling in and out of deeper creases and gravelly holes in its race of product against time. The product, of course, is water and how long it will last, percolating through the ground saturated with spring rains, until things dry to a trickle, usually when the cycle of high pressure systems begin to prevail. Or not. Weather is a fickle thing even in normal times, and then further randomly affected by an unpredictable El Nino or La Nina. I certainly have no control. I’m resigned to riding out what I am given. But I can take advantage, and opportunities arise when multiple days of soaking cause small streams like these to bloom. And so I set out on another overcast and threatening morning along a trail that would intersect with Crystal Brook. The irony of the divergences along our journeys wasn’t lost on me as I approached the merge, with thoughts too deep of the darkness and light of life and love. The intrusion of a scene falling into place was met as a relief, and the mechanics of camera work took over to push the heaviness aside. What providence plants the decision to explore when the gloom of the world matches the spirit of the soul? It is the same one, I think, that throws a random break of light into the depths of the jungle, just out of reach.

Buffalo Bur fruit

Solanum rostratum (Solanaceae) is native to the United States and northern and central Mexico. Common names include buffalobur nightshade, buffalo-bur, spiny nightshade, Colorado bur, Kansas thistle, bad woman, Mexican thistle, and Texas thistle.

It is an annual, self-compatible herb that forms a tumbleweed. Individual plants reach 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) tall, and have abundant spines on the stems and leaves. It produces yellow flowers with pentagonal corollas 2–3.5 cm (0.79–1.38 in), which are pollinated by medium- to large-sized bees including bumblebees.

Solanum rostratum flowers exhibit heteranthery, i.e. they bear two sets of anthers of unequal size, possibly distinct colouration, and divergence in ecological function between pollination and feeding. This species represents one of the latter scientific interests of Charles Darwin, who just over a week prior to his death had ordered seeds from a colleague in America, so as to investigate their heteranthery, a topic he was interested in.

The fruit, a berry, is enclosed by a prickly calyx. The seeds are released when the berries dry and dehisce (split apart, see below) while still attached to the plant.

Solanum rostratum is the ancestral host plant of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, but this pest adopted the potato, Solanum tuberosum as a new (and more succulent) host, a fact first reported in eastern Nebraska in 1859. (Wikipedia)

Dettifoss is a waterfall of 44 m high, located on the course of the river Jökulsá á Fjöllum, Iceland. It is located in northern Iceland, in the canyon of the Jökulsá á Fjöllum between Selfoss and Hafragilsfoss falls somewhat isolated in the desert. However, it is easily accessible by road F864 F862 east and west, sufficiently well maintained to be borrowed by conventional passenger vehicles.

Situated 308 meters, she rushes off a cliff consists of recent basalt (Quaternary). This drop is due to the formation of a normal fault related to the divergence that takes place at the back of the Icelandic graben. For it is said that this is the most powerful in Europe, with a rate of about 200 m3⋅s-1

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Junonia coenia, known as the common buckeye or buckeye, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Its range covers much of North America and some of Central America, including most of the eastern half of the US, the lower to middle Midwest, the Southwest (including most of California), southern Canada, and Mexico. Its habitat is open areas with low vegetation and some bare ground. Its original ancestry has been traced to Africa, which then experiences divergence in Asia. The species Junonia grisea, the gray buckeye, is found west of the Rocky Mountains and was formerly a subspecies of Junonia coenia.

The colourful lights of the Yakatabune dinner boats seen from Eitai bridge in Tokyo.

Gemini Residence, Copenhagen, Denmark.

The building has been created by converting two former seed silos.

Hence, it was named after the zodiac sign The Twins, Gemini.

Design (2002:) MVRDV.

The Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep is subspecies of bighorn sheep unique to the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. A 2016 genetics study confirmed significant divergence between the three subspecies of North America's bighorn sheep: Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep and desert bighorn sheep. Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep were listed as a federally endangered subspecies in 2000. As of 2016, over 600 Sierra bighorn remain in the wild.

divergence

The Iberian chiffchaff (Phylloscopus ibericus) is a species of leaf warbler endemic to Portugal, Spain and North Africa, west of a line stretching roughly from the western Pyrenees via the mountains of central Spain to the Atlantic.

Previously the Iberian chiffchaff was considered as a subspecies of the common chiffchaff. As of 2016, it is recognised as a separate species under the name Phylloscopus ibericus for the following reasons (compared to the common chiffchaff):

Brighter in colour

Greener rump

Yellower below

Vocalisations different

mtDNA sequence divergence

This image was taken in Cadiz in Southern Spain

Pepperoni fork and shadow. Dada, Dadaism, Surrealistic movements.

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (1916). New York Dada began in 1915 and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris. Dadaist activities lasted until the mid 1920s.

Developed in reaction to World War I, the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. The art of the movement spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing, and sculpture. Dadaist artists expressed their discontent toward violence, war, and nationalism, and maintained political affinities with radical left-wing and far-left politics.

There is no consensus on the origin of the movement's name; a common story is that the German artist Richard Huelsenbeck slid a paper knife (letter-opener) at random into a dictionary, where it landed on "dada", a colloquial French term for a hobby horse. Jean Arp wrote that Tristan Tzara invented the word at 6 p.m. on 6 February 1916, in the Café de la Terrasse in Zürich. Others note that it suggests the first words of a child, evoking a childishness and absurdity that appealed to the group. Still others speculate that the word might have been chosen to evoke a similar meaning (or no meaning at all) in any language, reflecting the movement's internationalism.

The roots of Dada lie in pre-war avant-garde. The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 to characterize works that challenge accepted definitions of art. Cubism and the development of collage and abstract art would inform the movement's detachment from the constraints of reality and convention. The work of French poets, Italian Futurists and the German Expressionists would influence Dada's rejection of the tight correlation between words and meaning. Works such as Ubu Roi (1896) by Alfred Jarry and the ballet Parade (1916–17) by Erik Satie would also be characterized as proto-Dadaist works. The Dada movement's principles were first collected in Hugo Ball's Dada Manifesto in 1916. Source Wikipedia.

TD : 1/2000 f/2.8 400 ISO @50 mm

Simply colour photography and certainly not selective colour, for those who might think so :))

1951 Ford F1 Pickup Truck

The first generation of the Ford F-Series (also known as the Ford Bonus-Built trucks) is a series of trucks that was produced by Ford Motor Company from the 1948 to the 1952 model years. The introduction of the F-Series marked the divergence of Ford car and truck design, developing a chassis intended specifically for truck use. Alongside pickup trucks, the model line included also panel vans, bare and cowled chassis, and marked Ford's entry into the medium- and heavy-duty truck segment.

From 1947 to 1952, Ford assembled F-Series trucks at 16 facilities across North America. In Canada, the model line was also marketed through Lincoln-Mercury as the Mercury M-Series to expand dealership coverage in rural areas. This generation of F-Series pickup trucks is the only generation to use entirely flathead engines (inline-6 and V8s).

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Ice abstract.

Sometimes I use colour too!

" God knows I tried, but broken, I bow to the beast inside

Covered my tracks, but couldn't swallow my pride

As sure as the moonlight strikes our skin

I howled a wrecking ball, and you were porcelain

An altered state, sometimes I even scare myself

Is it too late to question fate?

And hope is fleeting, still tethered to this grim divergence of my being

I can't stop the bleeding, I can barely stand myself

God knows I tried, but broken, I bow to the beast inside

Covered my tracks, but couldn't swallow my pride

As sure as the moonlight strikes our skin

I howled a wrecking ball, and you were porcelain

Porcelain

Porcelain

I saw your face, but it couldn't save me

I fell from grace, and I cracked your smile

Don't rescue me, I can't escape it

Ravenously, feed my feral mind, we bend before we break

God knows I tried, but broken, I bow to the beast inside

Covered my tracks, but couldn't swallow my pride

As sure as the moonlight strikes our skin

I howled a wrecking ball, and you were porcelain

Porcelain, compulsions killing me

Giving in and I can't go back

Porcelain, it's fucking killing me

Giving in, I can't go back

I've broken my vows to reconcile

I shattered your heart and left a crack in your smile

As sure as the moonlight strikes our skin

I howled a wrecking ball, and you were porcelain

Porcelain

Porcelain ... "

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About to cross the Milwaukee Road bridge spanning the Yellowstone River near Terry, Montana, I stopped. There was, I thought, a dog on the bridge. I didn't see their human, and I wasn't sure what to do. Maybe I saw a coyote?

Then I noticed there were two of them. And big. Cows?

No. Sheep. Two sheep - an older and younger male. They were just hanging out there, about a quarter of the way across.

I didn't want to startle them or freak them out - this is no ordinary bridge. It's an old railroad bridge that was just barely converted for automobile traffic. The old ties are still there, still open. You can see the river below between them.

The sheep were both on the walkway made of broken and questionable boards.

I stopped the car and took three photos of them. Then drove slowly by. They seemed utterly disinterested and unafraid. This was likely not their first time crossing.

When I returned, after a visit to the Badlands made immortal by Evelyn Cameron, the sheep were gone.

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'Divergence'

Camera: Mamiya RB67

Film: Fomapan 100

Process: 510-Pyro; 1+500; 60min

Montana

July 2023

Chichén Itzá

ancient city, Mexico

Chichén ItzáChichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico, designated a World Heritage site in 1988.

Chichén Itzá, ruined ancient Maya city occupying an area of 4 square miles (10 square km) in south-central Yucatán state, Mexico. It is thought to have been a religious, military, political, and commercial center that at its peak would have been home to 35,000 people. The site first saw settlers in 550, probably drawn there because of the easy access to water in the region via caves and sinkholes in limestone formations, known as cenotes.

Chichén Itzá is one of the new Seven Wonders of the World.

Chichén Itzá is located some 90 miles (150 km) east-northeast of Uxmal and 75 miles (120 km) east-southeast of the modern city of Mérida. The only source of water in the arid region around the site is from the cenotes. Two big cenotes on the site made it a suitable place for the city and gave it its name, from chi (“mouths”), chen (“wells”), and Itzá, the name of the Maya tribe that settled there. Chichén Itzá was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988.

Chichén Itzá: El CaracolEl Caracol (“The Snail”), an observatory at Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico.

Chichén was founded about the 6th century ce, presumably by Maya peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula who had occupied the region since the Pre-Classic, or Formative, Period (1500 bce–300 ce). The principal early buildings are in an architectural style known as Puuc, which shows a number of divergences from the styles of the southern lowlands. These earliest structures are to the south of the Main Plaza and include the Akabtzib (“House of the Dark Writing”), the Chichanchob (“Red House”), the Iglesia (“Church”), the Casa de las Monjas (“Nunnery”), and the observatory El Caracol (“The Snail”). There is evidence that, in the 10th century, after the collapse of the Maya cities of the southern lowlands, Chichén was invaded by foreigners, probably Maya speakers who had been strongly influenced by—and perhaps were under the direction of—the Toltec of central Mexico. These invaders may have been the Itzá for whom the site is named; some authorities, however, believe the Itzá arrived 200 to 300 years later.

In any event, the invaders were responsible for the construction of such major buildings as El Castillo (“The Castle”), a pyramid that rises 79 feet (24 meters) above the Main Plaza. El Castillo has four sides, each with 91 stairs and facing a cardinal direction; including the step on the top platform, these combine for a total of 365 steps—the number of days in the solar year. During the spring and autumnal equinoxes, shadows cast by the setting sun give the appearance of a snake undulating down the stairways. A carving of a plumed serpent at the top of the pyramid is symbolic of Quetzalcóatl (known to the Maya as Kukulcán), one of the major deities of the ancient Mesoamerican pantheon. Excavations within the nine-platform pyramid revealed another, earlier structure containing a red jaguar throne studded with jade.

Divergence - M6 J30 where the M61 diverges from the southbound M6, Lancashire

The Arghonants by Daniel Arrhakis (2021)

With the music : Audiomachine - Tangled Earth (Extended Version) Epic Dramatic Intense Emotional Powerful

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Our shoot with Dinara was a little problematic. We were speaking in different frequences. Or at least I thought so. I thought that she was seeing my ideas worthless or meaningless. That created a tension. Later I realized that, Dinara did actualy what I wanted from her- it was me who could not understand that.. She was trying to get into the role, in her ''own way'', which was something I could not see during the shoot, but understood later. That gave me a good lesson--of ''seeing'' not only from my side but seeing also from the other side..

The title comes first from this. Our ''divergence'' during the shoot. Our missunderstanding and being ''divergent'' to each other-although we were saying the same things but in different frequencies. Secondly, the ''feel'' in the image-how Dinara gave the emotion of being ''divergent'' to the outside world when she tries to get into her own soul- or how her inner world is divergent with what she lives outside of her world.

I love to give titles. As I see my images as songs, I like to add titles in order to fullfill the story and emotion.