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For Macro Mondays' #drips, drops and splashes theme
It's been a while since I've been here, but this really tapped into something I've wanted to try for ages. (And luckily it corresponded with the family all going off on scout camp and leaving me to my own devices for a few days....)
The background is a colouring-in sheet I completed years ago; even back then I appear to have been quite keen on rainbows!
The image is just over 2inches across.
I'm pretty certain there is no requirement to have motion for this theme, but I'm conscious this is a little different from others in the pool. It's definitely drops, though, and definitely under 3inches across, so hoping it fits.
The clear, “bouncing-ball” trill of the Field Sparrow is a familiar summer sound in brushy fields and roadsides of the East and Midwest. The singer is a small, warm-toned sparrow with a rusty cap, neat white eyering, and pink bill. Though still common, Field Sparrows have declined sharply in the last half-century, partly because of the expansion of suburbs, where Field Sparrows will not nest. Populations in the prairies have remained strong thanks in part to measures like the Conservation Reserve Program.
Superfast 11 passenger ship departure....
Location:Patras city coast/Peloponnese /Greece.
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A micro demonstration of why the universe is expanding :)
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I have been trying to document the track expansion of Wayco Siding at Hopedale. Here is my latest effort with a train operating on the new main under US Highway 22. The siding has been expanded from 5400 feet in length to 17,900 feet.
The territorial expansion towards Chinchaysuyo (now Ecuador) took place towards the middle of the 15th century and culminated in the first decades of the 16th. It was initiated by the Inca Tupac Yupanqui, son of Pachacuti Inca, the "renovator of the universe" and true builder of the Tahuantinsuyo or Empire of the Incas. The example of the great Tupac Yupanqui was followed by his son Huayna Cápac, until he submitted under his power the entire "universe" then known, with more than 6,000 kilometers of North-South extension and fundamentally affecting the people of the Sierra, since they felt no interest in the low plains of the West Coast and in the endless Amazon rainforests of the East. This empire included on the one hand the widest diversity of peoples, cultures, languages, cults and technologies, and on the other an extraordinary variety of ecological resources; factors with which thanks to an administrative, economic and theocratic system imposed by the Cuzqueños, the largest civilization that has existed in Andean History was structured.
The Incas had no major difficulty in dominating the Cañaris and Puruháes (in Ecuador) with whom they applied a very common strategy in them: the friendly system of reciprocity with the heads of the groups until they achieved their subordination; This method had given them rapid and successful results in Bolivia and Peru; while in the northern villages they had to apply the severe military conquest due to the stubborn resistance they encountered. Testimony of those fierce battles was precisely that of Yahuarcocha (lake of blood) whose waters were dyed red with the blood of the brave Caranquis who succumbed to Huayna Cápac himself.
The invaders captured from the conquered the long tradition and knowledge they had about agriculture, metallurgy, production of luxury products, extraction of the Spondylus shell, salt, coca, etc. Here they found a prodigal nature, with humid rainforest, mangroves and coastline on the coast; wide valleys, grasslands and fertile mountains in the Sierra. This geography counteracted with the ecological systems of the puna, reduced fertile spaces, or the extensive coastal deserts that predominate in the Central and Southern Andes, characteristic of present-day Peru.
I am trying out a vintage 500mm f8 mirror lens. These lenses don't have a great reputation for image quality, but I am really enjoying it as an art lens. Like in this example.
Here two of the often-mentioned mirror lens drawbacks are features: the parts of the bokeh that are busy emphasize the tubular nature of the grass stems. The parts that exhibit donut bokeh suggest seeds.
The general effect is impressionistic or even abstract impressionist. Not trying to copy Seurat, Monet or de Kooning, but to do something that when it works seems to have the power to evoke them a little while doing something distinctly photographic.
Not trying to say this image is in such an elite category, but I think it does at least suggest the possibilities.
In short, I'm having a lot of fun with it.
— Theodore Tollefson @thetollart
Con la expansión del Grand Tour en Europa, el Jardín Giusti se convirtió en una visita obligada para todos los grandes viajeros de paso por Verona -poetas, artistas, cabezas coronadas- como Cosme III, Charles de Brosses, Mozart, Goethe, Addison, Evelvyn, Ruskin... , el emperador José II, el rey Carlo Felice de Cerdeña y el zar Alejandro de Rusia con el mundo clásico, con pocas flores, pocos arbustos y árboles exóticos. Hoy todavía se puede ver la presencia de todos los elementos de moda en los jardines del siglo XVI: jarrones con cítricos, estatuas mitológicas, fuentes, cedro, cuevas, mascarones, hallazgos romanos y pabellones para detenerse a admirar la vista.
El jardín llano, dividido en nueve cuadrados, se divide en salas simétricas, dominadas por macizos de flores de boj y estatuas mitológicas de Diana, Venus, Atlas, Apolo, Adonis. El eje principal es la avenida bordeada de cipreses que conduce a la gruta y al mascarón, dejando a su derecha el laberinto y a su izquierda el parterre a la italiana, el jardín de cítricos y la llamada “vaseria”. Esta sección cuadrada y rigurosa del jardín recuerda la intervención arquitectónica del hombre, el orden y la simetría.
La sección arbolada del jardín, por otro lado, está diseñada para sorprender al visitante que camina por los senderos cuesta arriba a la sombra. El acantilado, la cueva, el juego de sombras y luces y las perspectivas se crean artificialmente para generar admiración, asombro y asombro. Una escalera secreta en una torre tallada en la roca conduce a la parte superior del jardín. Desde el mirador sobre la cabeza de la máscara se puede disfrutar de una de las vistas más famosas de la ciudad de Verona.
Con la expansión del Grand Tour en Europa, el Jardín Giusti se convirtió en una visita obligada para todos los grandes viajeros de paso por Verona -poetas, artistas, cabezas coronadas- como Cosme III, Charles de Brosses, Mozart, Goethe, Addison, Evelvyn, Ruskin... , el emperador José II, el rey Carlo Felice de Cerdeña y el zar Alejandro de Rusia con el mundo clásico, con pocas flores, pocos arbustos y árboles exóticos. Hoy todavía se puede ver la presencia de todos los elementos de moda en los jardines del siglo XVI: jarrones con cítricos, estatuas mitológicas, fuentes, cedro, cuevas, mascarones, hallazgos romanos y pabellones para detenerse a admirar la vista.
El jardín llano, dividido en nueve cuadrados, se divide en salas simétricas, dominadas por macizos de flores de boj y estatuas mitológicas de Diana, Venus, Atlas, Apolo, Adonis. El eje principal es la avenida bordeada de cipreses que conduce a la gruta y al mascarón, dejando a su derecha el laberinto y a su izquierda el parterre a la italiana, el jardín de cítricos y la llamada “vaseria”. Esta sección cuadrada y rigurosa del jardín recuerda la intervención arquitectónica del hombre, el orden y la simetría.
La sección arbolada del jardín, por otro lado, está diseñada para sorprender al visitante que camina por los senderos cuesta arriba a la sombra. El acantilado, la cueva, el juego de sombras y luces y las perspectivas se crean artificialmente para generar admiración, asombro y asombro. Una escalera secreta en una torre tallada en la roca conduce a la parte superior del jardín. Desde el mirador sobre la cabeza de la máscara se puede disfrutar de una de las vistas más famosas de la ciudad de Verona.
playing with a funny santa bag in snowy refuge...sorry for the bad quality of the pic,its very small size...:D
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The 470 Club recently purchased former B&M GP9 1741 (later Guilford Rail 72.) The unit was purchased by Heber Valley Railroad along with the 77 and 52, but they didn't have interest in moving 72 after the other two left. A deal was then hashed out between the Heber Valley and the 470 Club to bring 72 home, and today that finally happened. The unit has been stored at Ed Jeffrey's shop in North Stratford, NH for the last few months and was delivered to Hazens this past week for the final leg of the trip. B&M F7A 4268 is in the final stages of restoration and once the F's are brought up to par, work will commence on the 1741, eventually being restored to the as-delivered bluebird scheme. This unit is one of 5 remaining B&M GP9's (originally a 50 unit order) and will be a great addition to the 470 fleet. As always the club needs funds to purchase parts, this unit at the minimum will need four traction motors and batteries. Any donations are welcome and would help to get the unit back on the road as soon as possible.
Doel is a small village on the left bank of the river Schelde. It had to disappear because of the expansion of the Antwerp harbor. So, since about 20years most of the houses are abandoned; only 5 or 6 are still lived in. The village became a ghost village. The powerplant is in operation since 1975; the fourth reactor is in operation since 1985. The powerplant should be out of use by now, but the government kept it in operation because of a lack of energy. Next days I wil post photo's of the ghost village. With lots of graffiti!
Location: Voorne-Putten, the Netherlands
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Detail of Nawa pavilion, an architectural sculpture by architect Oskar Zięta. Its polished stainless steel arches reflect the surroundings, changing the sculpture's appearance throughout the day.
Daliowa Island, Wrocław, Poland
En estos tiempos no es fácil hablar de una especie que esté en expansión, pero curiosamente es el caso de la Curruca cabecinegra ( Sylvia melanocephala). Su reino, el matorral mediterráneo, cada vez ocupa más extensión, quizá por el abandono de muchas zonas de campo. En la fotografía un macho en Sierra Morena.
In these times it is not easy to speak of a species that is expanding, but curiously it is the case of the Sardinian Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala). His kingdom, the Mediterranean scrub, occupies more and more extension, perhaps due to the abandonment of many areas of the countryside. In the photograph a male in Sierra Morena. SW Spain
None of my photos are HDR or blended images, they are taken from just one shot
Sony A900 + Carl Zeiss16-35mm + ND8 + GND8 filters
Alteirinhos, Zambujeira do Mar, Odemira (Alentejo - Portugal)
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