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A view looking SW from Mt. Alyeska across the Turnagain Arm at low tide toward the Kenai mountains.
"Turnagain Arm was named by William Bligh of HMS Bounty fame. Bligh served as Cook's Sailing Master on his 3rd and final voyage, the aim of which was discovery of the Northwest Passage. Upon reaching the head of Cook Inlet, Bligh was of the opinion that both Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm were the mouths of rivers and not the opening to the Northwest Passage. Under Cook's orders Bligh organized a party to travel up Knik Arm, which quickly returned to report Knik Arm indeed led only to a river.
Afterwards a second party was dispatched up Turnagain Arm and it too returned to report only a river lay ahead. As a result of this frustration the second body of water was given the disingenuous name "Turn Again".
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Sorry I've been MIA.. I've had a bug in my Flickr for the last 6wks..and they finally figured out a workaround..so, it's going to take me a bit to catch up.. but..I think I'm back..LOL.. Thank you to those of you who reached out..have missed you guys so much!!! *hugs*
Cerro Catedral
For two years in a row I have tried to visit the top of this mountain, from which they say there is a privileged view of the Lake and the Andes, but winds of more than 100 km prevented access by tourists using the cable car.
Only the ski slopes were open, especially the trail for beginners and apprentices.
Maybe I'll try again...
Embracing failures, limitations, frustrations, waiting. Accept and have hope, but don't lower your arms. With the little we have, try to do our best, because in the end, the strength is within us.
Power music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMkCXuZiYaw
It was a thrill of a lifetime to stand in an Alaskan stream filled with salmon and photograph the Coastal brown bears as they charged in swatting and splashing for a meal! In this shot, a younger female gives up the chase and looks into my lens as if it might be my fault that she missed!
If you look to the left of this shot, you can see the red backs of the salmon as they escape.
From the archives and taken on 28 July, 2019 at Katmai National Park, Alaska.
Note: We did find it hysterical that often if they missed, they became so frustrated that they lost control of their bottom lip and it would hang down as pictured here.
Macro Monday theme - White on White
This one gave me a lot of trouble. Couldn't get the whites right , and I am embarrassed to say how long I spent on this one. I tried several subjects and lighting and finally settled for this set up. I had a lot of trouble with Flickr yesterday. Kept getting the Panda which added to my frustration! Seems better today though!
Happy Macro Monday!
Day 19 of 20 of albums that influenced my musical tastes.
Seven - James
In 1992, my brother began to study Economics in the National University of Mexico. Soon after he started classes, the University went on a strike. My brother decided to change of School. In the mean time, he started to work in a record store. We share the same musical tastes. One day, he came home with a CD that it had just arrived to the store, from a band that we haven't heard before, mainly because alternative or “indie” rock music was not almost not played on the radio here in Mexico. The band was James, and the album was Seven.
The sound was quite different for us, with a fresh combination of trumpet, violin, acoustic and electric guitars, and clever lyrics, and we fell in love immediately with them.
This album was released today, thirty years ago, so I can say, James has been an essential part of the soundtrack of our lives. My brother graduated from another prestigious University and now is a succesful economist with a Ph.D., and although now we do not share all the same musical taste, we still have some great late night musical sessions.
"Stop stop talking about who's to blame
When all that counts is how to change..."
Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday, too!
Unveil Your Heart
Always try to be smart
Listen to the Wind Chimes
Not only in good but even in bad Times
Let your Emotions dance
And don’t give Frustration a Chance
(Caren)
Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)
😄 Happy Sliders Sunday 😄
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Grey Heron
Copenhagen, Denmark
I watched this heron for quite some time by a lake, as it failed to find a fish to catch. Finally, it let loose in what seemed to me to be a cry of frustration!
Cerro Catedral
For two years in a row I have tried to visit to the top of this mountain, from which they say there is a privileged view of the Lake and the Andes, but winds of more than 100 km prevented access by tourists using the cable car.
Only the ski slopes were open, especially the trail for beginners and apprentices.
Maybe I'll try again...
No one has offered a better diagnosis of unhappiness and frustration than Frank Sheed. “Unhappiness,” he said, “is always unused or ill-used spiritual energy; and man has within himself so many energies made for God, that, lacking God, these energies cannot be satisfied, and can only turn in upon man and rend him.”3 He further said, “For fullness of being, man must have a knowledge of and a co-operation with that which maintains him in existence, that which is the very condition of his be-ing at all . . . There is an abyss of nothingness at the very heart of our being, and we had better counter it by the fullest possible use of our kinship with the Infinite, who is also at the very heart of our being.”4 Our pilgrimage is therefore neither eastwards nor westwards, but inwards; and this is what I call moving beyond East and West.
-Beyond East and West by John C.H. Wu Foreword by John Wu, Jr.
...is what it took to get this result. I just can't get on with Milky Way processing. No matter how many YouTube videos I watch and no matter how many things I try, over and over and over again, I just can't get anything I am pleased with. No idea where I am going wrong. Tearing my hair out, will be bald soon. I like a challenge, but this is more like beating my head against a wall. Such is the curse of perfectionism! Totally fed up...
I almost dread when a totally clear sky happens here, and it happens infrequently on Skye. I just have to brave the freezing cold and get out there - hoping against hope that things will be better this time but knowing full well I shall just be sobbing at my computer screen again by my miserable attempts at MW processing. Perhaps it would be best to just stay warm at home with a nice (large) shot of single-malt whisky...
This was shot at the Kilchrist church ruin on Skye, a location I first tried almost a year ago (with even worse results).
Until the next time...
By comparison, snail whispering is just so much easier...
when I was shooting this barn I saw the dark sky above the barn and decided another cloud was moving in. when i reviewed it on the screen at home it was clear that it was a patch with no aurora:)
A repost of an image taken nearly two years ago... Reposting because this shot got shortlisted for the Landscape photographer of the year 2011. :-)
It was my first ever "real" competition, and even although I didn't get into the final selects, I'm still really chuffed to have been shortlisted amongst such wonderful photographers and to have been judged by Charlie Waite.
You can see the winning images here and the very talented Angus Clyne was runner up.
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Regular visitors to my stream, will know about my DSLR trials and tribulations.. so I wont bore you... I've had a borrow of a 350 for a wee while... after an initial euphoric return to shooting... I've actually found it incredibly frustrating, and failed miserably to get anything that I'd be even remotely proud of sharing. It's been really demoralising, to the point I actually wondered if it was worth getting a new camera at all!
This morning changed all that... eventually, conditions ( -8 and some new snow), light (dawn breaking through the mist), me (getting the settings right on camera and in focus), all came together, for that 5 or 10 minutes that makes it all SO worthwhile:-)
Highly recommend a look at the large version, if you can.
Also just found out two of my prints have raised £150 so far in a charity auction for Haiti
Followed this guy all around the grounds of Filoli Manor near San Mateo, California, hoping to get him to spread his tail so I could get the shot. He finally disappeared through a hedge where I couldn't follow him. Damn bird.
...unless you live in the UK it's difficult to believe how chaotic life is right now. I have some petrol and as I don't actually need to travel much I am staying put.....but I don't know how much longer people will manage. The ultimate First-World problem I guess. Meanwhile, it's back to some glorious archives, here a stunning evening on Side Pike...and I notice how pyramidal the shadow of Pike O'Blisco looks. Clear air and a dusting of snow, what's not to like....and It'll still be there whenever I can travel.
This hawk's snake breakfast fell from the perch where he was dining on it and got hung on the supports. He tried for several minutes to retrieve it but couldn't.
When getting into the section of Cajon between Cajon Junction and Summit, we found the area to be quite frustrating. If we set up for a shot on one of the three trackage alignments, trains would only run on the other two. If we set up for a train in one direction, trains would run in the opposite direction. Here is an example as a westbound Santa Fe train runs on the north track near Mormon Rocks.
I watched this stag respond to another one bellowing some way off. He decided to head off in the direction of the call and as he got closer the other stag turned away and trotted off. This one bellowed in triumph only for the King of the park who was also in the vicinity to bellow back and this fella realised he was outgunned so he tuned back and headed into the copse from where he came, he then started pawing and thrashing his antlers on the ground in frustration.
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Frustration is a common emotional response to opposition, related to anger and disappointment, arising from perceived resistance to the fulfillment of individual will. The greater the obstruction and will, and the more sensitive the individual is to conflict, the greater the likelihood of frustration. The cause of frustration can be internal or external.
DL'd the Black Dragon viewer out of frustration with getting lines through my high res shots .. I have no idea what i'm doing but omg it's like wearing different glasses
Raw but for crop
A big slash across the water with its beak....drink of water or frustration at no fish were caught. The young ones should be either hatching or hatched at this point. Hmmmm.
By the time we had arrived at the ferris wheel down at Redcliffe for a night lights shot, I had torn my hair out with my infrared remote which had failed, fixed it and then when set up on site, failed again. Well, they say there are more ways to skin a cat than one so this is the alternate result by other means. But I still have to figure out why the remote refuses to play ball!
I had just finished taking some other photos and was walking back to my car when I came across this group of fishermen. There was quite an animated discussion going on. I was too far away to hear what was actually being said, but my best guess was something like: “No man, we haven’t caught any fish, the beer is gone, and I’m leaving.” 😄
A spontaneous shot taken on a rocky outcrop beside the Des Moines River just downstream from the Red Rock Dam near the Howell Station Campground in Marion County, Iowa.
Lensbaby Sweet 50 optic, set at F2.5
Composer Pro II with a Canon EF mount
No bend or extension tube used
Four photos of trees, scratched in anger and frustration, are Braeckmans tribute to Clarisse M, a young student who was granted euthanasia due to unbearable psychological suffering.
Dirk Braeckman met her as a photography student a year before. They immediately connected and soon they became a source of inspiration for each other.
Alas, it didn't last long. According to her wish, she said farewell to life on planet Earth, at 19 years old.
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Frustration! A wonderful display of Earth's shadow behind the trees, below a broad Belt of Venus, presented itself to my eyes out my rear windows as the sun rose, off to the right in the southeast. I was out of bed before dawn, awaiting arrival of a National Grid crew to fix our fluctuating voltage, flickering lights, and lack of heat (another story altogether). Grabbed my camera, took a few shots, with two lenses.
Processing them later, I just couldn't seem to produce what I had seen with my own eyes. To quote Pearl in Starlight Express, "Each time I try, it seems that I get further from my vision than before!" So, embracing the inevitable, I chose to exaggerate the colors Lightroom was giving me for Sliders Sunday. I expect I will never see a sky like that out my window. So what! HTmT!
the first one I posted today earlier seems not to be visible for many friends. Sinds weeks I'm busy with flickr support, but they can't solve the problem...
Sorry for those who have seen and commented on the picture before, I usually never post the same picture twice, it's the frustration of the technical problems on flickr