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Flamant rose
Phoenicopterus roseus - Greater Flamingo
L'ambiance très particulière de cette photo vient de la prise de vue à travers la végétation. Dites moi ce que vous en pensez :)
BNSF 1474, nicknamed "the Great Pumpkin" leads the Minot-Northtown into Big Lake with a couple of GEs and a couple of BN EMDs in tow.
Having been spoiled so much this year, it was a little disappointing to see BN buried in the consist.
But let's be humble, I'll take this SD60M any time.
Experimenting in the morning... These are reflections from my kitchen window on a bottle of Martinelli’s Gold Label Sparkling Cider.
Deep in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California there are plots of trees grown in these circlesfor research. They make for a a beautiful photo subject.
These airplanes are different: Experimental, LSA (Light Sport Aircraft), Home or Amateur-Built, Lightweight. Some have the propeller in the rear.
July 23, 2019
Oshkosh Airshow, Wisconsin
Clivia miniata. I dug out my ca. 35 year old prime lens (Asahi Pentax smc 50 mm f1.7 @1.7) and experimented with my full frame Nikon using a short extension tube to see how useful it was.
See more cherry blossoms here
See where this picture was taken. [?]
You can see this also here: www.ipernity.com/doc/manganite/605457
I don’t collect many things but I have long held a peculiar attraction to boxes. I particularly like unsophisticated carved wooden ones. These days I am not allowed to acquire more because of lack of space (though I do slip the odd one in under the radar every few years - Shhhh, don’t tell now...).
This box was hand-crafted in India and bought from a fair trade charity. It is of particular significance to me because it was an essential part of a parenting experiment that we did.
When my daughter was young we didn’t give her any pocket money. Instead, we had this box which was alway kept topped up with coins. She could take whatever she liked from it and spend it on what she wanted, though the agreement was that she would put any change from her purchase at the shop back in the box.
We did this because we hoped create a learning experience for her. In our society money is immensely important and I have always felt that being able to budget and manage money is essential for a young person to learn. Self-control in spending money is an important lesson too.
And values are particularly important as the ones we hold largely determine what we do with our lives and the impact we have on others. So we wanted to stop money being a control issue and an addictively desirable object for acquisition.
And the sorts of values we wanted to instil were ones like money only has value when you spend it and that it is meant to be useful or enjoyable, it’s for sharing, it’s a responsibility to be stewarded wisely, that the value of a person is not measured by their wealth but by the quality of their character (to borrow some famous words) and their integrity, that contentment is a better aim in life than success, that financial security does not mean having lots of money but that your income exceeds your expenditure, and, finally, that there is a tremendous amount of fun to be had in giving money away.
And with that rather lofty aim, we could only fail.
Except we didn’t. But I suspect that was more to do with our daughter’s personality (which parents don’t really control) rather than our experiment.
So that’s the story of this particular box. It’s still in use today as a change store, but in these days of contactless pandemics even that is on the decline.
I wasn’t feeling very imaginative today so you have a straight-down shot of the lid. I did try some other viewpoints but nothing was working. To add a bit of interest I used a lighting filter in the processing to add two lights top left and bottom right.
This is for the Smile on Saturday theme Money Box
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Smile on Saturday :)
This is what happens when you tape two cheap eBay lasers to a drill and walk in the dark trying to avoid tripping over the tripod....
Playing with Photoshop and an old slide from around late 80s - early 90s.. Matkoja-035_edited-1 copy
Deep in the quiet hills and flats of northeastern California a southbound manifest roars down the BNSF’s Gateway Subdivision. Leading the way is BNSF 7695, which is referred to as the “Golden Swoosh” for its unique yellow variant of the H3 logo. BNSF rosters two of these locomotives, BNSF 1050 and 7695. These units were both experimental for different paint schemes with the 1050 being H1, the company’s original scheme, and BNSF 7695 which was an experimental H3 as previously mentioned. Ultimately, the H1 scheme would end up with a green logo and H3 would end up with black which is still being used today. However, the yellow logo on the H1 scheme would later be used on H2. Despite the experimental schemes not ultimately working out, these locomotives were never repainted and can still be seen hauling trains today.
I saw this interesting looking flight object out near the Eagle's nest in Avon Lake. I wonder if this is experimental? It's got tail numbers so I guess it's passed some type of certification, but you wouldn't get me up in that, no siree bob.
Not a real space photo. Light art. Photoshop manipulations = composite image from 2 exposures, gas clouds/nebula created using Waterworld technique, background/foreground stars/gas planet from separate image (LED/laser/kiln), (Took out the increased noise layer...didn't like it, all effects now from two unmanipulated exposures). Still testing effects.