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Spring tulips in bloom in Madison Square Park in Manhattan, with New York City's famous Flat Iron Building in the distance. Shot with the Olympus E-M1.
A rainbow seemingly sitting on top of the dam wall at the end of Loch Glascarnoch on the Inverness-Ullapool road. The buildings in front of the dam are those of the Aultguish Inn - or, as my son commented, the Anguish Inn if the dam leaks!
I spotted this mountain like cloud with a flat top, known as a cumulonimbus in the Beagle Channel.This type of cloud usually means a storm may be on its way.
I don't think anyone goes hungry on Bolivar Flats although some fare better than others in the process. On the poorer side in this case is a small crab, snatched by a Willet from a shallow tidal pool at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico.
"Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled.
All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything."
[C. S. Lewis]
One of my attempts at the "Crazy Tuesday" theme "Flat Lay Photography".
Shot with a Leitz "Focotar 50 mm F 4.5" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
The Isle of Wight Red Funnel ferry 'Red Osprey' in IKEA colours - not bad for a flat-pack!!
Southampton, UK.
Kahn, resting with me downstairs while builders work on a new kitchen upstairs.
CoF142: Fauna & Close-up
Banyule Swamp at Banyule Flats Reserve, Viewbank (Melbourne, Australia).
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
59mm; 1/40 sec; f/8; ISO 100
Abandoned cafe with the Guadalupe Mountains in the distance.
Just outside the community there is a dry salt pan called Salt Flat Playa or Salt Basin. It straddles the New Mexico-Texas border and is about 150 miles long, and 5 to 15 miles wide making it one of the largest gypsum playas in the United States.
Taken last winter on a visit to York. The medieval city of York has this wonderful old wall encircling it which is fully open to the public. It dates back to Roman times although most of the Roman bits were replaced by another wall built by the Viking invaders around 1400 years ago. The current wall, while retaining elements of the Roman and Viking structures, dates back to construction that took place from the 12th to 14th century, so basically it's a pretty old wall. What a treat it was for me to capture this elderly gentleman in his traditional flat cap strolling along this part of the wall. But look closely because this is something I just can't figure out. He doesn't appear to have any hands! I have no idea why that is. I haven't touched this image other than to process it in the normal way. Very weird indeed.
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A flat cap (sometimes "scally cap") is a rounded cap with a small stiff brim in front, originating in Great Britain and Ireland. The hat is known in Ireland as a paddy cap, in Scotland as a bunnet, in Wales as a Dai cap, in New Zealand as a cheese-cutter, and in the United States as a driving cap. Cloths used to make the cap include wool, tweed (most common), and cotton.