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Guilin fisherman Fisherman of Guilin, Li River and Karst mountains during the blue hour of dawn,Guangxi China
Pining for Portugal - It was an early autumn and winter came on later than usual at Keefer Lake in 2021. However, at the beginning of 2022 we are experiencing 'full on' winter with temperatures dipping into the -30C's at night and not getting above -15C during the day. I will have to snow blow the driveway tomorrow - we were blessed with 20 cm's of snow during the last 24 hours. Stay warm, safe and healthy everyone!
- Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -
This lovely, old lady was peacefully relaxing in her hammock and watching the world go by as it did in the waters of Tonle Sap. There’s a pretty large class distinction between the people living in house boats and those in the stilted homes on the shores of the lake. The villagers living in floating houses on the lake are generally those of Vietnamese descent who are not allowed to own land. These people are basically discriminated against because they can’t prove their Cambodian birth and have no ID cards. Because of this, their living standards are significantly lower than the villagers living in stilted houses who are allowed to own land and farm to supplement their income during the dry season. Nontheless they seem happy enough with their lot in life.
Very sweet, blind, and likely deaf but happy just to hang out on the porch, dozing and sniffing the air.
Snapped on iPhone
This one already seems old and a bit worn around the edges. But it was my first sighting of Germany's only green butterfly, so I show it anyway :-)
Green Hairstreak butterfly.
Seen in the nature-sanctuary "Tister Bauernmoor" near Sittensen (between Bremen and Hamburg) - Niedersachsen - Germany.
Der hier sieht schon etwas alt und abgeflogen aus. Aber es war meine erste Sichtung von Deutschlands einzigem grünen Schmetterling, deshalb zeige ich ihn trotzdem :-)
Grüner Zipfelfalter.
Gesehen im Naturschutzgebiet "Tister Bauernmoor" bei Sittensen (zwischen Bremen und Hamburg) - Niedersachsen.
The Tombs of the Kings, a story about an elderly englishman
When I went to visit the tombs of the kings , I met an elderly englishman called Ian.
Ian , a nice distinguished person , who was just , or even more , interested in archaeology as me.
He had a lot of interesting stories to tell , but what amazed me the most was this.
Ian was walking with a stick, dus to some heavy physical problems and I was surprised that he could walk in this rather big site. Anyway , at one point we went down some ancient stairs in one of the tombs. When we were walking there , we see some other stairs, crumbly en going down deeper and deeper into the tombs, and there was no light. So I thought it was enough.
Ian dindn't think it was enough and was walking down that crumbly stairs into the dark, but he said it was ok, because he had the littlest flashlight I'd ever seen, what a guy!
A brave englishman with a special, rather english looking, hat. Because I was swetting very much (too much for good health) he told me that I could look for such a hat because it cools the head so very good. It's called a paddy hat, but that it is terribly expensive and special.
Ok, I said to him I'll search for it on the internet. Well boys and girls , I found the following: a paddy hat is a hat that is used in …..duhuh... Asia (and ofcourse the Philippines) in , the rice fields, which are also called the paddy fields, looking rather different then his hat ofcourse, but the effect is the same. In the Phils we can buy it for a small amount of pesos. If you want to know how it looks: duhuh and duhuh again, I've already uploaded a picture with a paddy hat! It must have been the heat....Thanks Ian and I'm sure you'll laugh so loud if you ever read this story.
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. You wait for a bus and then two come along at the same time. I just love his expression and the look that he forgot to put his teeth in, or that is how it seems. Enjoy!
West Kennet Long Barrow a Neolithic tomb, situated on a prominent chalk ridge, near Silbury Hill, one-and-a-half miles south of Avebury, in Wiltshire.
The site was recorded by John Aubrey in the 17th century and by William Stukeley in the 18th century.
Archaeologists classify it as a chambered long barrow and one of the Severn-Cotswold tombs. It has two pairs of opposing transept chambers and a single terminal chamber used for burial. The stone burial chambers are located at one end of one of the longest barrows in Britain at 100 m: in total it is estimated that 15,700 man-hours were expended in its construction. The entrance consists of a concave forecourt with a facade made from large slabs of sarsen stones which were placed to seal entry.
The construction of the West Kennet Long Barrow commenced about 3600 BC, which is some 400 years before the first stage of Stonehenge, and it was in use until around 2500 BC. The mound has been damaged by indiscriminate digging, but archaeological excavations in 1859 and 1955-56 found at least 46 burials, ranging from babies to elderly persons. The bones were disarticulated with some of the skulls and long bones missing. It has been suggested that the bones were removed periodically for display or transported elsewhere with the blocking facade being removed and replaced each time. Recent re-analysis of the dating evidence suggests that the 46 people all died within 20 – 30 years of each other, and that the tomb was open for 1,000 years.
The latest excavations also revealed that the side chambers occur inside an exact isosceles triangle, whose height is twice the length of its base. Artefacts associated with the burials include Neolithic Grooved ware similar to that found at nearby Windmill Hill.
It is thought that this tomb was in use for as long as 1,000 years and at the end of this period the passage and chamber were filled to the roof by the Beaker people with earth and stones, among which were found pieces of Grooved ware, Peterborough ware and Beaker pottery, charcoal, bone tools, and beads. Stuart Piggott, who excavated this mixture of secondary material, suggested that it had been collected from a nearby 'mortuary enclosure' showing that the site had been used for ritual activity long after it was used for burial. The finds from the site are displayed at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes, including some of the most impressive beakers from Britain.
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……This was a new route to Hawkers cove we found after chatting to an elderly local couple with their 3 dogs, we saw them a few times and asked how they got to where we saw them the second time! A great walk & nobody using it!! Local knowledge goes a long way and we always enjoy a chat with them - some visitors can be a bit ’sniffy’ and won’t even say good morning as they pass! Back home now & lawns to cut (after the rain!) and Jill’s got a mountain of washing after 10 days away!! And we’ve got to get ready for a visitation from family which will be great. Alan:-)
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Captured on my street photography workshop, demonstrating that there is nothing to fear in getting closer to your subjects. I did, however, realise that I sometimes get too close - too close for my lens to focus properly! Enjoy.
A Face that have many stories to tell!
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