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The St. Louis Blues won their first ever Stanley Cup championship in professional ice hockey over the Boston Bruins. Named after Lord Stanley of Preston, Governor General of Canada who enjoyed ice hockey, the silver cup has been present annually since 1892 -- and from the Blues' first season in 1967 until now, St Louis had never won. A great weekend to everyone!
My attendance at Provo High School was at times compromised due to the close proximity of the Rio Grande, Utah Railway, and Union Pacific rail yards. Case it point: Utah Railway's Martin Turn departing Provo the afternoon of July 29, 1977. The temptation to take flight from campus was real and ever-present, magnified all the more when I earned my driver's license.
The Wilson's Snipe and Greater Yellow legs at Virginia Lake look very alert and aware of what is going on around them in this shot but at other times they go about their business as though unaware of us
Like all crows worldwide the Pied Crow is very much an opportunist. This one and many others like it were more often than not seen around human habitation. In this case it was found around the back of a restaurant, no doubt looking for food left overs.
We only came across one other species of crow on this trip and that was the House Crow. A bird that had been introduced by there British to Zanzibar in 1897. The idea was that the house crows would clean up the waste left by humans. Alas they spread really easily throughout East Africa and are now regarded as an invasive species. In fact I believe that a they have also reached Holland as recently as 1998.
Baloo is one of the most laid back, relaxed bears I have ever met. He just sits back and waits for his turn on the fishing rock.
Our guides, from Guilin Photography Tours, setup an opportunity to go into some peoples homes on our first day.
It's one thing to be walking around an ancient village but something else entirely to be invited into a home and photograph people within their surroundings.
This lady, to me, was absolutely beautiful both in her appearance and in spirit. So was so welcoming when we came in and was so willing to be a subject for our cameras.
This is one of my favourite moments from the trip and one of my favourite shots from the couple of weeks that I was in China.
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North Fork French Broad River
Thanks to Living Waters for allowing access to this remarkable stretch of river.
Pentax K-1
SMC Pentax 1:1.8 55mm
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Taipei is a basin and there are low mountains around it. This is shot from the south during blue hour. I do love this angle since the river curves as residential area along.
這個貓空的攝點好久沒來，前面的樹已經長得太高，快不能拍到完整的景美溪，真是可惜。
PS. 標題出自宋代，李曾伯的「滿江紅·推枕聞雞」。
~ 貓空, 文山區, 台北
Maokong, Taipei, Taiwan
- ISO 100, F10, 30 sec(3 shots merged), 70 mm
- Canon 5D Mark III with EF 70-200mm f/4 L Lens
- Sunset @ 6.47pm(296º) / Shot @ 7.07pm
- Visibility 40 km @ 5.45pm / Humidity 70% @ 7.00pm
Not my photo but I wanted to share it.
APOLOGIES.!!! I see there is still a problem with my comments disappearing on Flickr.
I picked up this sprig of cedar in my yard in early December. It is in water but I did not expect it to survive this long, it has been six months ! I found the shard of green glass about a month ago and right after I took this photo, I picked it up and it slipped from my fingers and fell onto the tile floor and broke into little pieces, dammit. So it should be interesting to see how long this cedar sprig lasts, kinda strange eh.
Sat in the field with the sheep.. overlooking the field across the road.. being prepared for sowing..
TGIF..!! HFF..!! Thanks for looking.. have a great day..
Several lionesses were gathered to drink from the Chobe River in the early morning light. Those eyes....❤️
Chobe River, Chobe National Park. Chobe, Botswana.
more to come---- I will be posting more shots from my 2025 African safari in coming days---stay posted . Here is the link to the album www.flickr.com/photos/25171569@N02/albums/72177720326025958/
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/observations/283616071
Jenny Pansing photos
Die Ever Ace der taiwanesischen Reederei Evergreen ist 400 Meter lang und 61,5 Meter breit. 23.992 Standardcontainer (TEU) können mit dem Schiff transportiert werden – 28 TEU mehr als die vorherige Rekordhalterin HMM Algeciras.
Secret #6: Disney gave me unrealistic expectations about love. (Okay so I stole that line from a Facebook group, but it's so true!)
Quietly, I proceeded along the new birding trail I discovered. Blanca remained unseen down below while I could stretch just tall enough to look out over the top layer of shrubbery. We had only a few more minutes before the evening sun would be gone.
Then I heard something. It was familiar but I couldn’t place it at first. Somebody with a high-pitched voice was excitedly chattering away. Finally, beyond the range of my optimal eyesight, I recognized a shape crowning a twig. I could make out what looked like the gleaming lance of a medieval knight angled upwards in resolute readiness – and that’s when it struck me who you were!
I’ve had encounters with you in the garden where you suddenly appeared out of nowhere and hovered 4 feet in front of me, buzzing at me like an oversized bee, challenging me. You’re so popular with gardeners and photographers, it’s easy to forget that you are free and wild, roaming the wilderness. I didn’t realize this, but every spring you fly from Mexico northward up the coast as far as Canada and even Alaska and then back south along the Rocky Mountains to return to Mexico for the winter, an incredible journey of roughly 7800 miles! You memorize every garden feeder and every secret forest meadow along the way, and you’ll even pluck insects right out of spider webs. You live by your wits and your feisty personality. You truly are an iridescent little jewel on wings, and I love you and admire you.
Obviously, you could see me but you still remained for a long time, chirruping along. I think perhaps your song told of this beautiful and timeless truth: Nobody is ever too small to carry themselves with kingly self-possession and accomplish heroic deeds.
Be full of miniscule magnificence!
Claudia
Yup , just the end of the day on Wednesday 11/08/2021 and a nice sunset to round off the day . Trouble is round here there is no clear space to do justice to a rainbow as which ever way I go I am surrounded by houses and trees . Even standing out in the bigger road down the way does not open the panorama either , so this is what I could do - nothing like those beach sunsets we see here on flickr like Colin's .
Mount Fuji at sunset from Lake Kawaguchi.
Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi, Japan
I called this photo “Ever-present” because almost everywhere you go in Kawaguchiko Mount Fuji is there as a dominant presence.
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I can't for the life of me keep an orchid alive.
I've had three or four but they never survive.
I may try once more in hopes to achieve,
the most beautiful flower I've ever perceived.
" Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea ...."
J.R.R. Tolkien - A walking song from "The Hobbit"
Have you ever felt, that flowers are smiling to you, whenever you take their portrait in the Summer season?In your garden? Because I have! Such a joyful, bright, tender smile!! ❤️!!!!!Such a heartfelt emotion in my body!
Therefore, I am going now to share with you, some blooming smiles of my garden, in my current photos! Enjoy!!! ❤️
Ever wonder what Midjourney thinks you like? This is what it generated when I used a generic prompt, "Image", and my global profile. Not exactly my style, but I do think it interesting.
E’ l’ultima delle 10 Nart Spider prodotte e la terzultima della serie 275.
E’ l’unica Nart venduta in Europa, certificata da Ferrari Classica.
Nata grigia, anzi esattamente grigio scuro, ora è rossa.
Ps: Nart sta per North American Racing Team (NART) che era la scuderia creata nel 1958 da Luigi Chinetti.
E’ una Ferrari da film. Una 275 Gts/4 Nart Spider ha infatti recitato in The Thomas Crown affair accanto a Steve McQueen,uno che le auto (e non solo) le ha sempre amate. Anche se nel film la definisce “one of those red italian things“. Una di quelle cose rosse italiane…. Una di quelle cose rosse e italiane che gli hanno fatto perdere la testa (un po’ come Fay Dunaway nel film) tanto che proprio durante le riprese, ordinò la prima Ferrari della sua collezione.
Hollywood a parte, la 275 Gts/4 Nart comincia la sua storia grazie a Luigi Chinetti, l’importatore americano delle vetture di Maranello.E’ stato lui a convincere Ferrari a produrre la versione spider da affiancare alla 33o Gts e alla 275 GTB/4 per soddisfare la sofisticata clientela statunitense. Un modello con una rispettabile storia sportiva: seconda di classe (17° posto totale) alla 12 ore di Sebring del 1967.
L’esemplare che va all’asta a Monaco fu venduta in Spagna, a Madrid nel 1968 a un colonnello della Legione Straniera che le mise targhe Sahariane (Spanish Sahara per la precisione) senza mai esportarla in Nord Africa però. Qualche anno più tardi cambiò di mano, restando in Spagna (con targa di Madrid) ed entrando a far parte della collezione di José Segimon che la testò a fondo anche in pista a Jarama. Nel 1982 emigrò in Inghilterra dove fu ridipinta di rosso e nel 1983 è entrata a far parte della scuderia di Albert Obrist, uno dei collezionisti svizzeri più famosi. Nel 1995 la famiglia Obrist la vendette però negli Stati Uniti dove il suo proprietario Terry Hoyle la sfoggiò spesso facendola arrivare anche sulla cover di Octane nel 2005. Nel 2009 la Nart cambio ancora proprietario finendo nel garage di Lord Laidlaw nel West Sussex. la moglie di Lord Laidlaw la guidò personalmente in un raduno riservato alle signore in Toscana… Una storia fatta di una decina di proprietari che fanno parte di una ristretta schiera di grandi cxollezionisti Ferrari (in 5 hanno avuto anche delle Gto in garage).
E’ una Ferrari gioiello, insomma.
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One of the rarest roadsters in the world, the 1968 Ferrari 275 GTS/4 NART Spider was first seen on the big screen in the The Thomas Crown Affair starring Steve McQueen—a model the actor himself subsequently owned. Built at the behest of Luigi Chinetti, the first Ferrari dealer in the United States, Enzo Ferrari and Sergio Scaglietti produced only 10 examples—and each was given an acronym that referenced the marque’s North American Racing Team. Chinetti believed the American market desired the power of Ferrari’s GTB/4 coupe but in a convertible configuration, and that is exactly what the 300 hp, drop-top tourer provided. Still a competitor at heart, the first NART Spider took second in class at the 1967 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race, driven by wonder women Marianne “Pinkie” Rollo and Denise McCluggage.
Fit with a V-12 engine, 5-speed manual transmission, and four-wheel disc brakes, Chassis No. 11057 stands out in significance as it was the last NART Spider produced and the only one that was sold new in Europe. Bought by a Spanish colonel in the Foreign Legion, the car later travelled through several owners and became a prominent addition to the collections of both Chris Cox and Carlo Monteverde before eventually parking in the possession of Lord Irvine Laidlaw. Certified by Ferrari Classiche, the exceptional example is estimated to fetch up to $26.3 million, but who knows? If the bidding exceeds $38,115,000 (the price paid for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta through Bonhams in 2014), this Prancing Horse could take the prize as the most expensive car to ever sell at auction.
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