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... ever since editing this image I regret not using my camera here instead of my (then) five year old camera phone ... newer smartphones are noticeably better, but I make it a point keeping my ecological fingerprint as small as possible ... and this now seven year old phone is still working : ))
I have fond memories of that lovely summer day in Überlingen, Lake Constance (Germany) ... so this is just for fun and maybe I can make you smile a bit ; )) 💚
Smile on Saturday - theme of July 17, 2021: Bicycles
Happy Smile on Saturday! :-)
HAL - the unhinged mainframe computer of Kubrick's classic '2001' - famously had an ever watching eye that glowed dull red. The 2023 version is miniature, mobile and glows blue. iPhone camera keeping check from its stitched leather case.
22 layer focus stack stitched together in HeliconFocus and fastened off with Affinity Photo. For Macro Mondays - "Stitch"
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If you've ever taken a long family road trip, you know that there's a point at which you just need some quiet zen time.
Along US 395 near Janesville, CA, between Reno and the Lassen National Forest and Volcanic National Park, there is a rest stop near the edge of Honey Lake. I've traveled this road twice in my life, and both times I've stopped here. The first trip was a solo cross-country speed run in the spring, moving from one Navy posting to another. The second was a winter holiday road trip with my family. I think this scene resonated more on the second road trip.
I recently rediscovered this beautiful old graveyard in Windsor, Ontario. As I wandered around on this sunny fall afternoon, I was thinking about these departed souls. As I begin my ‘golden years’, I’m reminded how quickly time goes and the need, even more then ever, to cherish every moment.
Ever changing light!
Mornings like this one justify why I sometimes just setup the tripod and stay rooted to the same spot for sometimes over an hour.
Watching the blue hour tones give way to yellows, oranges and reds until the sun rises and shows the natural greens of the countryside and blue from the clear sky!
The rolling mist just adds some lovely atmosphere and mood to the conditions around!
I'll never be a wildlife photographer but could not resist sharing the cuteness of this beautiful red squirrel when I got the opportunity to see them at Pensthorpe Natural Park last week. I feel like I can identify with him, totally ignoring his salad and eating a cookie instead :)
Pensthorpe have 2 breeding pairs of red squirrels- many of the babies born here are released on the Isle of Anglesey as part of a managed release programme. You can read more about it (and see a lovely photo of a baby!) here:
www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/inspire/Pensthorpe-red-squirrels-2...
Shot at only 120mm through a mesh fence and cropped more than anything should ever be cropped!!
I knew when I got out of bed this morning things were not just going to go right.
-- Sim - Isle of May maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Weed/135/82/42
Credit: silkyostentatiousfashionstatements.blogspot.com/2018/06/w...
My first ever sighing of these butterflies in the UK, though I'd seen one of the European race in France in 1995.
Well worth the visit to Strumpshaw in the end, though a glorious morning in Nottingham turned to an ominously overcast one as I drove along the A47 around Norwich and I thought it wasn't going to happen! Especially as I'd missed a good showing in the morning before I arrived; and also missed another short showing whilst waiting and hoping for the sun to come out over lunchtime in the Fen Hide, as the sun and butterflies emerged all too briefly during that time. Thankfully, all was well in the end when the sun finally came out again in late afternoon after a 4 hour wait and the butterflies finally emerged. What a beautiful sight!
Best viewed large.
Thank you for the faves and positive comments. Much appreciated.
Bright sunsets are not a thing of the past. Great sunsets are here to stay. Great reds, oranges and yellows. Great contrasts, hues and flowing clouds that seem to swirl across the skies. No two sunsets are ever the same like fingerprints. My wish is that sunsets would last longer, right up to a great sunrise. Enjoy the “Ever Changing Sunsets” as they mark the ending of our joyful days and our troubled days alike. Thanks for viewing my work. Stay safe and use your mask today.
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Explore #12
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Foro Romano - Roma - Italia / Roman Forum - Rome - Italy
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de/from: Wikipedia
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Foro Romano
El Foro Romano (en latín, Forum Romanum, aunque los romanos se referían a él comúnmente como Forum Magnum o simplemente Forum) era el foro de la ciudad de Roma, es decir, la zona central —semejante a las plazas centrales en las ciudades actuales— donde se encuentran las instituciones de gobierno, de mercado y religiosas. Al igual que hoy en día, era donde tenían lugar el comercio, los negocios, la prostitución, la religión y la administración de justicia. En él se situaba el hogar comunal.
Series de restos de pavimento muestran que sedimentos erosionados desde las colinas circundantes ya estaban elevando el nivel del foro en la primera época de la República. Originalmente había sido un terreno pantanoso, que fue drenado por los Tarquinios mediante la Cloaca Máxima. Su pavimento de travertino definitivo, que aún puede verse, data del reinado de César Augusto.
Actualmente es famoso por sus restos, que muestran elocuentemente el uso de los espacios urbanos durante el Imperio romano. El Foro Romano incluye los siguientes monumentos, edificios y demás ruinas antiguas importantes:
Templo de Cástor y Pólux
Templo de Rómulo
Templo de Saturno
Templo de Vesta
Casa de las Vestales
Templo de Venus y Roma
Templo de César
Basílica Emilia
Basílica Julia
Arco de Septimio Severo
Arco de Tito
Rostra (plural de rostrum), la tribuna desde donde los políticos daban sus discursos a los ciudadanos romanos.
Curia Julia, sede del Senado.
Basílica de Majencio y Constantino
Tabulario
Templo de Antonino y Faustina
Regia
Templo de Vespasiano y Tito
Templo de la Concordia
Templo de Jano
Un camino procesional, la Vía Sacra, cruza el Foro Romano conectándolo con el Coliseo. Al final del Imperio perdió su uso cotidiano quedando como lugar sagrado.
El último monumento construido en el Foro fue la Columna de Focas. Durante la Edad Media, aunque la memoria del Foro Romano persistió, los edificios fueron en su mayor parte enterrados bajo escombros y su localización, la zona entre el monte Capitolino y el Coliseo, fue designada Campo Vaccinio o ‘campo bovino’. El regreso del papa Urbano V desde Aviñón en 1367 despertó un creciente interés por los monumentos antiguos, en parte por su lección moral y en parte como cantera para construir nuevos edificios. Se extrajo gran cantidad de mármol para construcciones papales (en el Vaticano principalmente) y para cocer en hornos creados en el mismo foro para hacer cal. Miguel Ángel expresó en muchas ocasiones su oposición a la destrucción de los restos. Artistas de finales del siglo XV dibujaron las ruinas del Foro, los anticuarios copiaron inscripciones desde el siglo XVI y se comenzó una excavación profesional a finales del siglo XVIII. Un cardenal tomó medidas para drenarlo de nuevo y construyó el barrio Alessadrine sobre él. No obstante, la excavación de Carlo Fea, quien empezó a retirar los escombros del Arco de Septimio Severo en 1803, y los arqueólogos del régimen napoleónico marcaron el comienzo de la limpieza del Foro, que no fue totalmente excavado hasta principios del siglo XX.
En su estado actual, se muestran juntos restos de varios siglos, debido a la práctica romana de construir sobre ruinas más antiguas.
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The Roman Forum
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum (Italian: Foro Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.
For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city's great men. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in the world, and in all history.Located in the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, the Forum today is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragments and intermittent archaeological excavations attracting 4.5 million or more sightseers yearly.
Many of the oldest and most important structures of the ancient city were located on or near the Forum. The Roman Kingdom's earliest shrines and temples were located on the southeastern edge. These included the ancient former royal residence, the Regia (8th century BC), and the Temple of Vesta (7th century BC), as well as the surrounding complex of the Vestal Virgins, all of which were rebuilt after the rise of imperial Rome.
Other archaic shrines to the northwest, such as the Umbilicus Urbis and the Vulcanal (Shrine of Vulcan), developed into the Republic's formal Comitium (assembly area). This is where the Senate—as well as Republican government itself—began. The Senate House, government offices, tribunals, temples, memorials and statues gradually cluttered the area.
Over time the archaic Comitium was replaced by the larger adjacent Forum and the focus of judicial activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later, Julius Caesar built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both the judicial offices and the Senate itself. This new Forum, in what proved to be its final form, then served as a revitalized city square where the people of Rome could gather for commercial, political, judicial and religious pursuits in ever greater numbers.
Eventually much economic and judicial business would transfer away from the Forum Romanum to the larger and more extravagant structures (Trajan's Forum and the Basilica Ulpia) to the north. The reign of Constantine the Great saw the construction of the last major expansion of the Forum complex—the Basilica of Maxentius (312 AD). This returned the political center to the Forum until the fall of the Western Roman Empire almost two centuries later.
I don't think I will ever tire of watching a Reddish Egret, and particularly a white morph, 'dancing' whilst trying to catch a fish. They are always so graceful and never short of the right move for the right occasion.
At first light this amazing white morph was giving itself a better vantage point by standing on its tiptoes.
The staging for this performance was provided by the Sanibel Causeway.
Taken near Fort Myers, Florida.
As always, thank you so much for stopping by and for leaving any comments or faves, they are very much appreciated.
My old fave wild photography location - Snapper Point. So much variety, well to me anyway, in the coastal landscape there. From sandy beaches, rock shelves, cliffs and sea caves. It is located in a State Recreation area, similar to a National Park. Heaven! And no people - bonus!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas :)
Many thanks for every fave and comment, I appreciate them all!
We call this our raspberry ripple rose, but if anyone knows its real name do please let me know. Judy came across this many years ago in our garden when the rose bush was buried beneath garden debris. Judy has cared for it ever since and this year it has rewarded us with a wonderful display. The colours are "as is" and have not been enhanced.
The process of becoming other than,
the shedding of the old by way of time
the hands upon the clock traverse their span,
the ever fleeting moment reigns, sublime.
The emptiness of all objective forms,
the rushing river, never stepped in twice,
the reconfiguration of all norms,
the virtues of lost ages seen as vice,
The elements converge and then react,
the caterpillars weave themselves cocoons,
the world amends its stock of gathered facts,
the moths emerge, in flight to greet the moon,
The firmament, destroyed and rearranged,
the universal essence, found in change.
And nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before
And we'll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow
You, Beloved, who are all
the gardens I have ever gazed at,
longing. An open window
in a country house —, and you almost
stepped out, pensive, to meet me.
Streets that I chanced upon,—
you had just walked down them and vanished.
And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors
were still dizzy with your presence and, startled,
gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows?
perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us
yesterday, separate, in the evening...
~ Rilke
Photo taken at Goatswood. DO visit this build, take your time to discover the stories that are peppered throughout this eerily beautiful village.
In the middle of the forest, deeply hidden, there are damaged high seats that need to be repaired or are no longer needed. I had already given my opinion on the subject of hunting: It's not my thing and I'm not a fan of it either! Never at all!
On a summer day in the Shuswap, the relentless heat lead to multiple visits to the cool waters of the lake. That same heat brought some interesting clouds both day and night. Sometimes with brilliant, wicked colors at sunset, other times with fascinating
complex and twisting shapes during the day.
The bright edges of a unique cloud over Copper Island, lay in apposition to the silhouette created below. It drew my attention because of the two very distinct and different forms. One a black silhouette with precise edges, while the other, white with ever changing edges.