Given by a friend

Macro Mondays: Gift

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Hiding - Reef / Rides (1999)

Hiding

Riding

Hiding oh don't you want to go away?

I'm feeling that I'm far away today

Away

I'm feeling that I'm far away today

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I Talk To The Wind - King Crimson / In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

I talk to the wind. My words are all carried away. I talk to the wind

The wind does not hear. The wind cannot hear.

You don't possess me, don't impress me. Just upset my mind.

Can't instruct me or conduct me. Just use up my time.

I talk to the wind. My words are all carried away. I talk to the wind.

The wind does not hear. The wind cannot hear. I talk to the wind.

Said the straight man to the late man: Where have you been?

I've been here and I've been there and... I've been in between.

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Insect Near Piha Beach - Four Tet / Sixteen Oceans (2020)

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The antipodes of where I was born and who I am are in the north of New Zealand near Auckand. But they are not on land, they are in the ocean. I am glad to know that the opposite of me is in the ocean, because the sea has always given me happiness and tranquility. The Four Tet insect, which was near Piha beach, was absolutely right.. Both my antipode and the insect are... Hiding Near Piha Beach... Away...

Escondido.

Cabalgando.

Escondido ¿no quieres irte lejos?

Hoy siento que estoy lejos.

Lejos.

Siento que hoy estoy lejos.

Auckland's West Coast, New Zealand. Waitakere coast near Piha Black Sand Beach.

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Riviera Paradise - Stevie Ray Vaughan / Rock Masters: Texas Flood (2005). Live in Austin, Texas

Sacred Island (Moku La'a) - Taj Mahal & the Hula Blues Band / Taj Mahal & the Hula Blues Band: Live from Kauai (2015)

PS: Estoy fuera mirando dentro.

PS: He estado aquí y he estado allí... y he estado en el medio.

PS: Y mis pies están gastados... pero son cómodos...

♫♪Given to fly (Pearl Jam)♫♪

Lago de Atitlán desde Panajachel (Guatemala).

Sigma 10-20mm + Cokin filter : GND8

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Coprinellus disseminatus is a species of agaric fungus in the family Psathyrellaceae. Unlike most other coprinoid mushrooms, C. disseminatus does not dissolve into black ink in maturity. The species was given its current name in 1939 by Jakob Emanuel Lange. Coprinellus disseminatus has about 143 sexes. Wikipedia

We've all seen the 'Grebe Dance'

For all the world this looks like one of those., but on Steroids!

In actuality these two were about to have a proper 'set-too' and there was no quarter given on either side!

I just had to go find the Dancing House while I was in Prague. Have a great weekend!!

From Wikipedia.... "The Dancing House (Czech: Tančící dům), or Fred and Ginger, is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building on the Rašínovo nábřeží (Rašín Embankment) in Prague, Czech Republic."

Adapted from a slide taken in the late 1980s.

Given a warm glow treatment.

Taken with a Pentax MX.

Given the choice between an eagle on the wing and a duck, I'll take an eagle. But I need only go to Salem to find a shooting gallery's worth of ducks. Mallards! Quack! c.2022 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com

Vive la France...! Le 14 Juillet à Paris . The National day of France ! No. 0126.

"Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In French, it is formally called la Fête nationale (French pronunciation: ​[la fɛt nasjɔnal]; "The National Celebration") and commonly and legally le 14 juillet (French pronunciation: ​[lə katɔʁz(ə) ʒɥijɛ]; "the 14th of July").[3]

The French National Day is the anniversary of Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789,[1][2] a turning point of the French Revolution,[4] as well as the Fête de la Fédération which celebrated the unity of the French people on 14 July 1790. Celebrations are held throughout France. The oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe[citation needed] is held on 14 July on the Champs-Élysées in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, along with other French officials and foreign guests."

Le 14 JuilletN 1 est la fête nationale de la République française. C'est un jour férié en France.

Elle a été instituée par la loi Raspail1 du 6 juillet 1880, pour commémorer la prise de la Bastille du 14 juillet 1789, symbole de la fin de la monarchie absolue3,4, ainsi que la Fête de la Fédération de 17905, symbole de l'union de la Nation. La loi ne mentionne pas quel est l'évènement commémoré : « La République adopte le 14 Juillet comme jour de fête nationale annuelle » (article unique)3.

Wikipédia

Given its unpredictable temper, the African buffalo is particularly difficult to tame and has never been domesticated like its relative, the Asian water buffalo. Additionally, these animals are considered to be extremely dangerous. They fiercely protect themselves and each other against predators and are known to move in to support another buffalo that is under attack by a lion or other predator. They are very courageous animals.

Given a scratch & blur treatment.

My own, I had one second hand when they were still in production in the early 1980s.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia

“It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.”

David R. Brower

Maria Schroeder

www.redseawreckproject.com/2013/08/19/maria-schroder/

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ROTTERDAM, 2e Maasvlakte - The Container ship Ever Given (built in 2018), which got stuck in the Suez Canal in Marc 23h, arrived after 106 days in the Dutch Port of Rotterdam after being released by authorities in Egypte.

The 400-metre (1,312-foot) vessel is carrying about 18,300 Containers on board. Belonging to the largest Contaner Ships in the World.

Given a colour modification & slight blur, the loft conversion continues to be a very popular way of extending the living space in houses.

I was given strict instructions I was not allowed to stand on the rocks at all to take images. The tide was coming in and huge waves were crashing through the cavern and over the rocks. You wouldn't know it from this long exposure though.

This image was taken from a ledge on the side of the rock-face. The sea spray was so bad that I only got few usable images.

Note to self. When it is that wild and windy, it really isn't worth the effort. Try as I might I could not get the filters clean between images.

I am starting my field survey season and already have way too much work. I will be cutting back posting and commenting to a few times a week to try to manage my time. In the words fellow photographer Leon-"please don't desert me'!

Streets of Philadelphia.

Given a blur and boosted colour treatment.

My first try at growing these beautiful Crocosmia flowers from corms given to me by a neighbourhood Community Gardener.

The abundant eye-catching, brillliantly red, tubular [hummimgbird attracting] flowers appear in midsummer atop bold, slightly arching, sparsely branched 3-foot-tall stems. Crocosmia's mid-green leaves are pleated and swordlike. www.finegardening.com/plant/crocosmia-lucifer

Noteworthy Characteristics

Crocosmia is a genus of about 7 species of cormous plants from grasslands in South Africa. [...].

Genus name comes from the Greek words krokos meaning saffron and osme meaning a smell for the smell of dried flowers steeped in warm water.

'Lucifer' is an Alan Bloom hybrid (Crocosmia x Curtonus) which has flowers and foliage that are similar to gladiolus. A clump-forming plant that features tubular, nodding, scarlet red, one-sided flowers borne along the upper portions of stiffly arching, sometimes branched, flower scapes (stems) typically rising up to 3' (infrequently to 4') tall and slightly above the narrow, sword-shaped, basal leaves. www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDe...

Alongside the Union Pacific’s mainline at North Lake, Wisconsin - Sparkling overnight frost has given sections of spare rail a covering of Pure Cold. – November 2015 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©

It's rhododendron time at Cragside - and given a sunny day, the place is resplendent. and it's only 15 mins up the road - perfect!

Go large to get in amongst them!

Pedra da Gávea is a monolithic mountain in Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Composed of granite and gneiss, its elevation is 844 metres (2,769 ft), making it one of the highest mountains in the world that ends directly in the ocean. Trails on the mountain were opened up by the local farming population in the early 1800s; today, the site is under the administration of the Tijuca National Park.

The mountain's name translates as Rock of the Topsail, and was given to it during the expedition of Captain Gaspar de Lemos, begun in 1501, and in which the Rio de Janeiro bay (today Guanabara Bay, but after which the city was named) also received its name. The mountain, one of the first in Brazil to be named in Portuguese, was named by the expedition's sailors, who compared its silhouette to that of the shape of a topsail of a carrack upon sighting it on January 1, 1502. That name in turn came to be given to the Gávea area of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Differential weathering on one side of the rock has created what is described as a stylized human face. Markings on another face of the rock have been described as an inscription. Geologists and scientists are nearly in agreement that the "inscription" is the result of erosion and that the "face" is a product of pareidolia. Furthermore, the consensus of archaeologists and scholars in Brazil is that the mountain should not be viewed as an archaeological site.

So, I had actually given up hope in finding a suitable location to shoot sunrise. my first pick was inside a cloud. washed out, so I went to a backup location that I just KNEW was perfect.... sun was rising behind me. Tried three other locations with similar results. I was defeated, so on my way back home from much further than I wanted to try I pulled over onto the shoulder of the road, and checked my sun tracker app one last time.... Low and behold there it was, with ten minutes to get set up before rise I pulled everything out and hoped the mist I was sitting in would clear enough for the sun to shine through. I wasn't disappointed, and I hope I managed to do it some justice as the light just exploded around me.

ISO 160

Aperture f5.6

SS 1/4th

Focal Length 16mm

Haida filters stacked both the 3 and 4 stop soft grad filters.

This alien head rock souvenir was given to me by Coyote, proprietor of Coyote's Flying Saucer Retrievals and Repairs Service located in scenic Jacumba, California a small desert town along I-8. Back in 2018, I stopped by after visiting the Desert View Tower and checked out his facility; BTW, he's the owner of the flying saucer that I use every so often. He and Luna, his dog, were very kind and allowed me to get a few pics of the yard and shared some great stories. If you happen to see the Desert View Tower (it's on In-Ko-Pah Road off I-8) that's where you'll find Coyote, stop in and say hi. He might also give you a alien head souvenir and maybe some stickers if he has any left. I included the pic I got of him and Luna in the first comment.

The original marker color faded so I touched it up with a gold Sharpie. Weird how it looks like real gold...don't you think. :)

Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro, 14 Image Focus Stack shot at f/8.0.

Also known as Rüppell's Griffon Vulture, this species was given an IUCN status of critically endangered in 2015. Only eight years prior, in 2007, its IUCN status was "near threatened", and it was subsequently degraded down through "vulnerable" and "endangered" to its current status. The BirdLife International Fact Sheet for this species estimates that there are only 22,000 individuals left in the world. The biggests threats are poisoning (a technique used to kill predators of livestock, this species and other carrion feeders are also impacted), medicinal purposes, and habitat loss. This species is also considered the highest flying bird in the world. There is documented collision with a commercial airliner at 37,000 feet (the bird was sucked into the engine, killing the bird; the engine was shut down and the plane landed safely).

I was given and Amaryllis three years ago, but the last two years it never bloomed, just leaves...

I spotted bulbs in a box store and had to purchase one... took the old bulb out of the pot, cut it all down and replaced with this... and in a matter of weeks, this new one is ready to pop!

I'm hoping the other bulb will come alive next year.

* Given that Spurn Point is relatively close to Hull I guess it's surprising I do not go there often. It is the oddest and wildest part of East Yorkshire with huge skies. However I find it too desolate to really enjoy, though some of my friends who are serious birders love it . This shot was taken on the narrowest parts of the spit. On the left hand side is the North Sea and on the right the waters of the Humber estuary . The little wooden cabin is a shelter in case a high tide cuts you off from the mainland which is not uncommon. You can see the lighthouse which is about four miles further along the spit.

Its a hard place to describe so I will borrow some text from the Yorkshire wildlife trust .

From the Yorkshire wildlife trust website

Spurn Point (or Spurn Head as it is also known) is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is over 3 miles long, almost half the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards wide in places. The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to an RNLI lifeboat station and disused lighthouse. It forms part of the civil parish of Easington.

Spurn Head covers 280 acres above high water and 450 acres of foreshore. It has been owned since 1960 by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and is a designated National Nature Reserve, Heritage Coast and is part of the Humber Flats, Marshes and Coast Special Protection Area.

The peninsula is made up from sand and shingle as well as Boulder Clay eroded from the Holderness coastline washed down the coastline from Flamborough Head. Material is washed down the coast by longshore drift and accumulates to form the long, narrow embankment in the sheltered waters inside the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is maintained by plants, especially Marram grass . Waves carry material along the peninsula to the tip, continually extending it; as this action stretches the peninsula it also narrows it to the extent that the sea can cut across it in severe weather. When the sea cuts across it permanently, everything beyond the breach is swept away, only to eventually reform as a new spit pointing further south. This cycle of destruction and reconstruction occurs approximately every 250 years. The now crumbling defences will not be replaced and the spit will continue to move westwards at a rate of 2 metres per year, keeping pace with the coastal erosion further north.

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Given today is nearly 30 degrees C at 11am, leading to a very hot 38 degrees, the only way I can get an icy shot is to place my small rose in the freezer with some water. Once taken out it is a race to photograph it as the ice melts!

Something fun to do though. HSoS

For Y SIN EMBARGO magazine #25, Just a memory.

Many thanks to Fernando Prats and mengwen29!

A magical find given the time of year. I found this gem one day but waited for the next as I wanted the sun to play in the scene. My biggest fear was that a woodland critter would nibble on it during the night but it was intact. I returned 2 days later to take another image and the cap was gone, nowhere to be found.

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Thank goodness for the Spring colours!

This work is done Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations with celebrating Springtime.

Also for Finding the Beauty in the World Today Despite the Hardships Given Us by the Coronavirus and the Monitor Madness group.

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️

No mercy is given by the Pumpkin King , he totally disagrees with the blade or death must be that only mercy he will give.

With this picture , the King of Halloween , the Pumpkin King in a version of my Creeps , do I wish you all a very Creepy horrifying thrilling (but fun and lovely) Halloween!!!

For those who know me is not even Halloween getting mercy from me...The horror and darkness floats in my stream constantly but hey...the darkness always lingers and never sleeps , lets keep it here alive and slithering.

I had the idea to use this magnificent decoration item as head and not deco. The pumpkin is definitely one of my most favorite items seen as deco for Halloween 🎃

Head (modified to use as a head (its deco) plus I photoshopped the 'NO's' on it) : CODE-5 Wenom Pumpkin : marketplace.secondlife.com/p/CODE-5-WEN0M-PUMPKIN-V001/15...

Knife | [Dope+Mercy] DOPE Knife @TheSummoningEvent

SLurl : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Cat/169/127/35?fbcli...

Arm Blades : CX Impaled Blades @ CX Mainstore

Music : This is Halloween (Dubstep Remix) : www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWOg9IaVGcg

This work is done for Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations with a Celebrating Tranquility

Also for Finding the Beauty in the World Today Despite the Hardships Given Us by the Coronavirus.

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This orchid was given to me as a Christmas present in 2020. It was given to me as a 'Blue Orchid'.

I was pleased to see that it was setting new buds Christmas 2021 a year later. I was interested to see what it's natural colour would be as blue orchids have die injected into them.

This little beauty has emerged over the last few days. It is still only 5mm across, so I am looking forward to seeing it in full bloom (along with the other 4 blooms)

Per Wiki...Minneopa State Park is a state park in Minnesota, United States. It was established in 1905 to preserve Minneopa Falls, the largest waterfall in southern Minnesota, and was expanded in the 1960s to include the lower reaches of Minneopa Creek and a large tract of prairie. Minneopa is Minnesota's third oldest state park, after Itasca and Interstate. Two park resources are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1862 Seppman Mill and a district of seven Rustic Style structures built by the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s. The park is located almost entirely on the south side of the Minnesota River, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Mankato. In 2015 the state reintroduced American bison to the park in a 330-acre fenced enclosure, which visitors can drive through in their vehicles.

The creek cascades about 6 or 7 feet (2 m) over the upper falls and flows 66 feet (20 m) before dropping over the 39-foot (12 m) lower falls. The name is a shortening of Minneinneopa, which is translated from the Dakota language as "water falling twice." Other translations have been given as "water of two falls" and "water of the dancing elk." Although Minneopa Falls is often referred to as the highest waterfall in southern Minnesota, Minnemishinona Falls in a nearby Nicollet County park is slightly higher at 42 feet (13 m) but is not as scenic or well-known. Lower Minneopa Falls can be called the region's largest, as it is 25 feet (7.6 m) wide while Minnemishinona spans only 10 feet (3.0 m)

Was given an old software editing program from a friend & it's outdated enough that it can't process my Raw photos lol! Trying to work with what I have. Any feedback is appreciated.

This is a neat barn in Rural Nebraska, I liked the pattern on the roof.

Hope you like it.

A friend has given me Mongolian Giant sunflower seedlings. My dog Disa stepped on them. Only two survived. The smaller one broke completely before it was in flower, because the dog stepped on it again. I read on the internet, that sunflowers don't get roots once they are cut. That made me unhappy. I waited for weeks and then the sunflower got roots! I planted it again, and it had a minuscule flower late in the year. Flies and bees loved it.

Good morning all,

Given the severe drought in the region the water levels were very low on my trip to the Chobe River in Botswana. This resulted in no shortage of African Fish Eagle sightings, including sightings on every outing on the river.

In this particular case, I sat in my boat and watched two of them hunting for a good hour on a morning outing. It was a very special experience.

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Given the mood of the colour version, thought it would look OK in mono.

sharpness and detail will go a long way to render it commonplace :-)

George Davison

Truth Matters! Science Matters!

sunrise, atlantic beach, north carolina

given to me from my grandsons...

I planted them outside and these images were taken through my front window.

With all the rain and wind we're getting.... the petals are all on the ground!!

shape - Arana - Numb

mesh head - Lelutka - Avalon 3.1

skin - Human Glitch - Nyaskin

hair - Tram - L0325

dress & gloves - Absence - Ember

boots & socks - Usagi Society - Runa

tattoo - Corazon - Legend

I should have called this shot 'breached' given half of the north sea came over the top of my boots and filled my wellies.

Given popularity of this place at the moment it shouldn't be long

"Every chip from every cup

Every promise given up

Every reason that's not enough

Is falling, falling at your feet

Every one who needs a friend

Every life that has no end

Every knee not ready to bend

Is falling, falling at your feet

Have come crawling, falling at your feet

All fall down, all fall down, all fall down,

All fall down, all fall down, all fall down, all fall down, all fall down..."

From The Million Dollar Hotel: youtu.be/mwrZD27i5iI