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A Black Skimmer holds its beak open, with perhaps too great expectations for the shallowness of the skim.
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“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
迷惘裡永遠看不透
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尋遍了卻偏失去
未盼卻在手
Expectations were like fine pottery.....
The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
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Honestly I can't remember what this is! It's dappled with dried rain spots and has a stuccoed exterior in the background, but beyond that...
Well it was our last full day in Madeira and I still hadn't been to the Fanal forest. It had been a sunny warm relaxing morning by the pool at the hotel in Funchal, so after a healthy lunch I suggested to Mrs T that we should just go and have a relaxing stroll through the woodland there! She agreed.
I had this vision of a quiet, high altitude, arboreal, peaceful haven in mind as we pulled into a rammed car park an hour later, full of people wandering around armed with selfie sticks and children in tow! Of course it was a Sunday, but I hadn't expected it to be this busy.
So after 40 minutes of trying to find spots without lovers posing amongst the fabulous trees or dangling from the low branches, getting that "social media influencers pose just right". We left with my expectations of Fanal completely shattered!
Luckily I did manage to wait my turn and get a few shots and miraculously just after we arrived the mist rolled in too! I left this walker in the shot, as it looks like the big tree character is following her down the slope!
I'm going, I'm going
Where the water tastes like wine
I'm going where the water tastes like wine
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away
All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can't stay
Leica M8, Elmar (collapsible) 4/90.
Ruaha National Park was still waiting for the so much needed rains. The habitat couldn't have been more different from the Selous / Nyerere had it tried. Dry riverbeds, yellow and brown grasses, and even the normally verdant green leaves of Acacias tinting toward the grey.
This Zebra, with its stark black and white contrast proved to be the "speck of colour" in a fairly monochrome ochre landscape :)
Good luck U.S.A. and may a straw of common sense and democracy will always be in reach ...
No Expectations by The Rolling Stones (1968)
Meerkat / Erdmännchen (Suricata suricatta)
Makgadikgadi Pan N.P., Botswana, Africa
The incredibly atmospheric Old City in Nazareth really does manage to meet tourist expectations. But Nazareth is a big, modern, growing city of shopping malls and dual carriageways, with a population of 100,000 and the centre of cultural and political life for Arabs in Israel proper. A great way to appreciate it in all its aspects is to take in the view from Mount Precipice (395 m above sea level).
Mount Precipice is said to be where Jesus was chased after preaching a very unpopular sermon at the Nazareth Synagogue – when the crowd tried to throw him off Mount Precipice's steep cliffs: "They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way." (Luke 4: 29–30)
On top of the ridge above the old city is the modern minaret (2009) and onion dome of the Nebi Saeen Mosque, and to its right, the red roof and white tower of the St Gabriel Hotel. Further to the left is the 1906-23 Salesian Church, the Basilica of Jesus the Adolescent. On the lower slopes, the Annunciation Basilica is very obvious - and huge. The Synagogue Church and Christ Church Anglican are visible to its left if one knows what one is looking for. Finally on the left are the green dome and minaret of the modern Al-Sadiq Mosque.
Do not be tethered by your expectations, they may often dissappoint. Expectations without attachment allows you to be flexible in all situations. Expect nothing, receive everything.
Ever since shooting a train with Boeings here in 2017 (flic.kr/p/CzV3jf) I had thought it would be a cool shot to do over with an MRL Ace, or if I was lucky an SD40. Never did I imagine I would get a chance to shoot an SD45 here! It's tough, because Columbus offers a number of other neat shots that generally get all the attention. However, with the more scenic location slayed the day prior, I decided to see how this looked. While not earth shattering, I can now cross a pretty damn neat shot off my list. Train is seen here roaring out of Columbus, which has a Minnesota connection. Originally called Sheep Dip, and then Stillwater, due to the Northern Pacific already having a Stillwater, MN, the mail was getting delivered to all the wrong locations. It was then renamed Columbus, which it remains today.
Europe, France, Corse, Haute Corse, Corsica, Corsica Suprana, Bastia, Harbour, Mega Andrea, Passengers (slightly cut from T&B)
The Mega Andrea cruise ferry, coming in from Toulon, is owned and operated by Corsica Ferries and Sardinia Ferries. She has had a long service life.
Built in 1986 by Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Finland, for Effoa as MS Wellamo for use on the Silja Line, the vessel was rebuilt in 1992 at Lloyds Werft, Bremerhaven, Germany, as Silja Festival. After being replaced by MS Isabelle on the Stockholm-Riga route in May 2013, she was chartered as an accommodation ship to Kitimat, British Columbia and was then sold in early 2015 to Corsica Ferries Sardinia Ferries.
The people shown here are probably envisioning the way that they’re going to enjoy Corsica and are foot passengers. The car and lorry drivers are already in their vehicles.
This is number 5 of the Corsica album here and 54 of Ferries.
People have different expectations in their everyday lives just like photographers have different expectation regarding the look of an image. I’m not sure how the surrealist photographers feel about all the AI abilities, given much of what they created through hard work can now be done by a computer.
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