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....forming one large head of gorgeous blue, I love a summer of hydrangeas in my garden.
100 Flowers in 2025 1/100
Dyrholaey 20210715
Dyrhólaey is a naturally formed arch on the shoreline west of the tiny village of Vík on the south coast in Iceland. The 120 m high basalt rock is a former volcanic island, formed in an eruption some one hundred thousand years ago. The raging Atlantic Ocean has shaped the cliffs since the Ice Age. The hole in the middle was carved out by the ocean digging out the weaker remaining rocks over a long period. In addition to the arch, interesting stacks are standing tall just south of the Dyrhólaey cliffs.
The whole formation, the island, the black beach and rocky shoreline around the island, the stacks, and the arch is a spectacular natural phenomenon.
Dyrhólaey is a beautiful location for birdwatching. In 1978 Dyrhólaey became a nature reserve as nature and birdlife during spring, and early summer is quite sensitive and requires monitoring.
Source Hit Iceland.
I think of the brown tint images here as fighting forms. More detailed descrption to come. Below is a basic meaning of the title series.
Tenkō (転向, literally, changing direction) is a Japanese term referring to the coerced ideological conversions of Japanese socialists and communists who, between 1925 and 1945, were induced to renounce leftist ideologies and enthusiastically embrace the Emperor-centric, capitalist, and imperialist ideology favored by the state. Tenkō was typically performed under duress, most often in police custody, and was a condition for release (although surveillance and harassment would often continue thereafter). But it was also a broader phenomenon, a kind of cultural reorientation in the face of national crisis, that did not always involve direct repression
source: wikipedia
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Mist forming in Little Langdale on the drive in was encouraging, although a stiff breeze on the Wrynose Pass wasn't promising. However, it seemed like the cold valley air was being pushed up Great Langdale from the south, and rising over the Langdale Pikes to give some amazing atmospherics for a couple of hours around dawn. Coupled with haze in the valleys gave a wonderful start to the holiday.
This was part of a much larger berg at Jokulslaron in Iceland, I lay down on my stomach and shot it with a 70-200mm lens.
Just beautiful
These were formed by splashing water along the edge of the Ottawa River.
Celles-ci ont été formées en éclaboussant l'eau le long du bord de la rivière des Outaouais.
This is an HDR shot of the north-westernmost aspect of the monastery of Holy Trinity (Meteora, Greece) before sunset. The monastery was built in 1362 AD or earlier at a height of 1,755 feet (535 m), close to the top of the rock formation bearing the same name. One can use the 149 steps carved in the rock in 1925 to ascend to the monastery.
Holy Trinity is one of the many impressive and lofty rock formations whose group is collectively called Meteora: The sandstone megaliths' height varies 1,000–1,800 ft (300–550 m). The rock masses were formed 60 million years ago, are geologically unique and listed in UNESCO world heritage sites.
📷 settings:
Canon EOS R5
Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 400 mm
ISO 100 – f/9 – [ 1/250 sec & 1/100 sec ] HDR
I set off form the great ocean road 2 days ago with the main goal of getting a shot of this iconic pier over the next 7 days or so before I duck back to Sydney for a few days.
From about lunch time today I had my eye on the forming clouds just hoping they would hang around until sunset. They didn't, they rarely do. However this set rolled over the horizon and put on a real welcome to SA show.
Uploading late as it took me ages to align the pano, I hadn't though to re-adjust the pivot point on my pano head for the new lens. So I had to manually align then use auto blend cs5, got there in the end.
6 shot vert
20sec ish per shot
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cic pol
3 stop soft
5 stop solid
Prob needs a slight colour adjustment, (clouds need to swing a bit from that pinkish to more orange) but its late ill do it later.
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In the mid-15th century, Bauska castle was built by the Germans of the Livonian Order. A small town called Schildburg grew on the narrow peninsula formed by the Mūsa and Mēmele rivers. Around 1580 by the order of Duke Gotthard Kettler this settlement was relocated to the present location of Bauska Old Town, eventually receiving city rights sometime before 1609.
Delle forme particolari di aggressività vanno considerate pure l’impertinenza e l’ironia. L’ostilità si maschera con il sarcasmo; si fa intendere di non attribuire il giusto peso alle parole o si invita ad afferrare il contrario di quanto si è proferito. Il vero messaggio si nasconde sotto il tono di voce e dietro l’umorismo.
Bald Eagle nest has the best vantage point.
6 C,
Aircraft approaching YVR
Burnaby Fraser Foreshore Park, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Explore - #18
The Riverside Drive Viaduct, built in 1900 by the US City of New York, was constructed to connect an important system of drives in Upper Manhattan by creating a high-level boulevard extension of Riverside Drive over the barrier of Manhattanville Valley to the former Boulevard Lafayette in Washington Heights.
F. Stuart Williamson was the chief engineer for the municipal project, which constituted a feat of engineering technology. Despite the viaduct's important utilitarian role as a highway, the structure was also a strong symbol of civic pride, inspired by America’s late 19th-century City Beautiful movement. The viaduct’s original roadway, wide pedestrian walks and overall design were sumptuously ornamented, creating a prime example of public works that married form and function. An issue of the Scientific American magazine in 1900 remarked that the Riverside Drive Viaduct's completion afforded New Yorkers “a continuous drive of ten miles along the picturesque banks of the Hudson and Harlem Rivers.”[1]
The elevated steel highway of the viaduct extends above Twelfth Avenue from 127th Street (now Tiemann Place) to 135th Street and is shouldered by masonry approaches. The viaduct proper was made of open hearth medium steel, comprising twenty-six spans, or bays, whose hypnotic repetition is much appreciated from underneath at street level. The south and north approaches are of rock-faced Mohawk Valley, N.Y., limestone with Maine granite trimmings, the face work being of coursed ashlar. The girders over Manhattan Explore - #40
Street (now 125th Street) were the largest ever built at the time. The broad plaza effect of the south approach was designed to impart deliberate grandeur to the natural terminus of much of Riverside Drive’s traffic as well as to give full advantage to the vista overlooking the Hudson River and New Jersey Palisades to the west.
The viaduct underwent a two-year long reconstruction in 1961 and another in 1987. (source: Wikipedia)
Yo, hold up, hold up, hold up, okay, hold up
You see a bad bitch coming through, yo, what's the hold up?
I'm in that new new, me and New New when I roll up
I tell the valet, "Park my Benz and bring the Rolls up"
Yo, hold up, hold up, hold up, okay, hold up
FlickrFriday - #Bottles
Jörg Schubert / #schubertj73
Titel: Flasche mit Herz Form – Industrie Produkt Kunst Fotografie.
Jörg Schubert / #schubertj73
Title: Bottle with Heart Shape - Industrial Product Art Photography.
Shiva is the god of creation.
He is worshiped in the form of lingam (phallus).
Because from there creation is coming.
But this works only when lingam is put in yoni (vagina).
In Sanskrit the meaning of yoni is holy place.
In Hindu temples lingam and yoni are nicely carved from stone.
In Malaysia there are also Chinese venerating Shiva.
Chinese are very pragmatic and clever people.
So this Chinese built cheaply his own open air temple.
With materials for lingam and yoni from a nearby construction site.
Now he can do his prayers whenever he likes and weather condition allows.
As experienced and photographed in Penang, Malaysia.
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Chorsu is always chaos, smoke, and constant movement. But sometimes you manage to catch a moment when all this bazaar noise fades into the background. The light falls in such a way that it carves out one specific scene from the hustle, and the dead black eats up everything else.
Drone shot of the Congregational Church and Legoe Bay during a beautiful winter sunset. Orcas Island can be seen in the background.
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We are standing at Banks East Turret that forms part of Hadrian's Wall looking at a classic Cumbrian view and a classic English summer sky.
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
EF600mm f/4L IS USM +1.4x III
The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling, or in the British Isles just the starling, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is about 20 cm (8 in) long and has glossy black plumage with a metallic sheen, which is speckled with white at some times of year. The legs are pink and the bill is black in winter and yellow in summer; young birds have browner plumage than the adults. It is a noisy bird, especially in communal roosts and other gregarious situations, with an unmusical but varied song. Its gift for mimicry has been noted in literature including the Mabinogion and the works of Pliny the Elder and William Shakespeare.
The common starling has about a dozen subspecies breeding in open habitats across its native range in temperate Europe and western Asia, and it has been introduced to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, the Falkland Islands, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, South Africa and Fiji. This bird is resident in southern and western Europe and southwestern Asia, while northeastern populations migrate south and west in winter within the breeding range and also further south to Iberia and North Africa. The common starling builds an untidy nest in a natural or artificial cavity in which four or five glossy, pale blue eggs are laid. These take two weeks to hatch and the young remain in the nest for another three weeks. There are normally one or two breeding attempts each year. This species is omnivorous, taking a wide range of invertebrates, as well as seeds and fruit. It is hunted by various mammals and birds of prey, and is host to a range of external and internal parasites.
Large flocks typical of this species can be beneficial to agriculture by controlling invertebrate pests; however, starlings can also be pests themselves when they feed on fruit and sprouting crops. Common starlings may also be a nuisance through the noise and mess caused by their large urban roosts. Introduced populations in particular have been subjected to a range of controls, including culling, but these have had limited success except in preventing the colonisation of Western Australia. The species has declined in numbers in parts of northern and western Europe since the 1980s due to fewer grassland invertebrates being available as food for growing chicks. Despite this, its huge global population is not thought to be declining significantly, so the common starling is classified as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The common starling is 19–23 cm (7.5–9.1 in) long, with a wingspan of 31–44 cm (12–17 in) and a weight of 58–101 g (2.0–3.6 oz). Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 11.8 to 13.8 cm (4.6 to 5.4 in), the tail is 5.8 to 6.8 cm (2.3 to 2.7 in), the culmen is 2.5 to 3.2 cm (0.98 to 1.26 in) and the tarsus is 2.7 to 3.2 cm The plumage is iridescent black, glossed purple or green, and spangled with white, especially in winter. The underparts of adult male common starlings are less spotted than those of adult females at a given time of year. The throat feathers of males are long and loose and are used in display while those of females are smaller and more pointed. The legs are stout and pinkish- or greyish-red. The bill is narrow and conical with a sharp tip; in the winter it is brownish-black but in summer, females have lemon yellow beaks while males have yellow bills with blue-grey bases. Moulting occurs once a year- in late summer after the breeding season has finished; the fresh feathers are prominently tipped white (breast feathers) or buff (wing and back feathers), which gives the bird a speckled appearance. The reduction in the spotting in the breeding season is achieved through the white feather tips largely wearing off. Juveniles are grey-brown and by their first winter resemble adults though often retaining some brown juvenile feathering, especially on the head. They can usually be sexed by the colour of the irises, rich brown in males, mouse-brown or grey in females. Estimating the contrast between an iris and the central always-dark pupil is 97% accurate in determining sex, rising to 98% if the length of the throat feathers is also considered. The common starling is mid-sized by both starling standards and passerine standards. It is readily distinguished from other mid-sized passerines, such as thrushes, icterids or small corvids, by its relatively short tail, sharp, blade-like bill, round-bellied shape and strong, sizeable (and rufous-coloured) legs. In flight, its strongly pointed wings and dark colouration are distinctive, while on the ground its strange, somewhat waddling gait is also characteristic. The colouring and build usually distinguish this bird from other starlings, although the closely related spotless starling may be physically distinguished by the lack of iridescent spots in adult breeding plumage.
Like most terrestrial starlings the common starling moves by walking or running, rather than hopping. Their flight is quite strong and direct; their triangular-shaped wings beat very rapidly, and periodically the birds glide for a short way without losing much height before resuming powered flight. When in a flock, the birds take off almost simultaneously, wheel and turn in unison, form a compact mass or trail off into a wispy stream, bunch up again and land in a coordinated fashion. Common starling on migration can fly at 60–80 km/h (37–50 mph) and cover up to 1,000–1,500 km (620–930 mi).
Several terrestrial starlings, including those in the genus Sturnus, have adaptations of the skull and muscles that help with feeding by probing. This adaptation is most strongly developed in the common starling (along with the spotless and white-cheeked starlings), where the protractor muscles responsible for opening the jaw are enlarged and the skull is narrow, allowing the eye to be moved forward to peer down the length of the bill. This technique involves inserting the bill into the ground and opening it as a way of searching for hidden food items. Common starlings have the physical traits that enable them to use this feeding technique, which has undoubtedly helped the species spread far and wide.
In Iberia, the western Mediterranean and northwest Africa, the common starling may be confused with the closely related spotless starling, the plumage of which, as its name implies, has a more uniform colour. At close range it can be seen that the latter has longer throat feathers, a fact particularly noticeable when it sings.
The common starling is a noisy bird. Its song consists of a wide variety of both melodic and mechanical-sounding noises as part of a ritual succession of sounds. The male is the main songster and engages in bouts of song lasting for a minute or more. Each of these typically includes four varieties of song type, which follow each other in a regular order without pause. The bout starts with a series of pure-tone whistles and these are followed by the main part of the song, a number of variable sequences that often incorporate snatches of song mimicked from other species of bird and various naturally occurring or man-made noises. The structure and simplicity of the sound mimicked is of greater importance than the frequency with which it occurs. Each sound clip is repeated several times before the bird moves on to the next. After this variable section comes a number of types of repeated clicks followed by a final burst of high-frequency song, again formed of several types. Each bird has its own repertoire with more proficient birds having a range of up to 35 variable song types and as many as 14 types of clicks.
The Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces form a historical building complex in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has been listed as a UNESCO cultural World Heritage Site since 1984. The buildings are connected by the spacious gardens and trees of the Schlosspark. Augustusburg Palace (German: Schloss Augustusburg) and its parks also serve as a venue for the Brühl Palace Concerts.
The palaces were built at the beginning of the 18th century by the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Bavaria of the Wittelsbach family. The architects were Johann Conrad Schlaun and François de Cuvilliés. The main block of Augustusburg Palace is a U-shaped building with three main storeys and two levels of attics. The magnificent staircase was designed by Johann Balthasar Neumann.
The gardens were designed by Dominique Girard. An elaborate flower garden for an area south of the palaces was also designed, but it was restructured by Peter Joseph Lenné in the 19th century and turned into a landscape garden. Attempts to renovate the area have proven difficult, due to poor source material availability.
Falkenlust hunting lodge was designed by François de Cuvilliés and built from 1729 to 1740, in the style of the Amalienburg hunting lodge in the park of Nymphenburg Palace.
From shortly after World War II until 1994, Augustusburg was used as a reception hall for guests of state by the German President, as it is not far from Bonn, which was the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany at that time.
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Fujifilm X-S10
Fujinon XC15-45mm F3.5-5.6 OIS PZ
L'agapanto (Agapanthus L’Hér.) è un genere di piante erbacee perenni appartenenti alla famiglia delle Liliaceae e originarie del Sudafrica. Il nome deriva dal greco agàpe (amore) e ànthos (fiore). Il fiore, appunto, dell'agapantus è di colore blu cielo ed è raccolto come a formare un grande ombrello: può raggiungere fino a 60 cm di altezza.
From Wikipedia