last picture of my morningmood series...

i promise it...

Camera Sony A7

Lens: Kit

enjoy your day...

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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King Midas was given the magical power of his Golden Touch by the Greek god Dionysus. Midas had helped Dionysus reunite with his foster father when the older satyr had gotten drunk and lost. Out of gratitude for this deed, Dionysus offered to give Midas anything he desired. Midas asked for the power to turn anything he touched to gold.

Porcupine Tree - Collapse the light Into earth

I won't shiver in the cold

I won't let the shadows take their toll

I won't cover my head in the dark

And I won't forget you when we part

Collapse the light into earth

I won't heal given time

I won't try to change your mind

I won't feel better in the cold light of day

But I wouldn't stop you if you wanted to stay

Collapse the light into earth

PARQUE EDUARDO VII (EDWARD VII PARK). The name was given to it in 1903 following the visit of the English King Edward VII, before it was called Parque da Liberdade. Lisboa / Lisbon, PORTUGAL.

The lake in the heart of the hiking, running and mountainbiking mountain area Corviglia can be used as an oasis of relaxation or as a running track for the individual altitude training.

The lake of Lej Alv above Marguns captures and stores the water that flows down the mountain and the Val Schlattain during the snow melt. In winter the lake is used as a reservoir for the artificial snow on the mountainside; in summer it provides a wonderful excursion destination for runners, mountain bikers and hikers. You can reach the lake via the mountain station of the Marguns gondola or the mountain station at the Corviglia funicular. Given the altitude, swimming in the lake is an option for hard-core bathers only; but its shores do provide a delightful relaxed setting for a picnic lunch as you take in the views of the Engadin mountains and savour the crisp mountain air.

Boxtel is a small town, but its big church shows that it was an important place once. Just outside the town you'll find a park in which lies this castle, Kasteel Stapelen. The entire complex was given a new look in early neo-Gothic style in 1857-1858, to fit the then popular ideas about what a medieval castle should look like. Towers were heightened, the facade of the chapel was renewed and countless battlements were added to places where there never had been any. Since 1915 the castle has been used as a monastery. In the Middle Ages a miracle occured here which is still celebrated each year with a big procession.

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.

** Its rather sad to be posting the final shot from a trip but this is the last one from the road trip we took in 2016 . We drove from Santa Fe to New Orleans via parts of Texas . Certainly saw quite a range of different landscapes and cultures .

One of the highlights was spending time at Jefferson Island in Louisiana . Roseate Spoonbills are certainly the oddest birds I have ever seen and it was a good opportunity to see large group of them close up . I am in debt to two flickr contacts Cajun Snapper and Larry Daugherty who gave me hints and directions to a small pool on Jefferson Island.

Well that’s the end of travel shots from 2016 so will be posting stuff from 2017 soon. Its a good job I am so far behind given that this year does not look like it will be adding a great deal to my travel collection

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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

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Silver bracelet given to me in 1972.

HMM!

The frame is 5.08 cm (2inches)

Macro Mondays: Gold or Silver

Also

#9/120 Bangles and bracelets: 120 Pictures in 120

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'!

Off the water and back to the woods to soak up some of the remaining color which is holding fairly well, especially given the strong winds we've had the last few days. I went out specifically to take a bunch of photos to upload into my "new friend," with the single and not unrealistic (I thought) hope of being able to find them...which I did, but not until after numerous wrong guesses as to where I thought they seemingly should be...like "Pictures."

By the way, I appreciate your support and tips re: my new desk top (not a laptop as some seem to have guessed), and it progresses slowly. I really don't use a computer for much other than my photos so I haven't even begun to tap the capabilities of this one...and am uncertain as to whether I will even try or not. What I would like to find is the 90% of my photos which did not appear with the others when I transferred them from the flash drive to the new computer. 10% are in fancy new folders...the rest unpleasantly invisible. Everything sees very hit and miss...mostly miss for now causing me to simply walk away from the computer and find other occupations. My learning curve and patience have both suffered with old age.

[Larger puts you on the path]

Streets of Philadelphia.

This work is done Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations with a tribute to Finding the Beauty That Surrounds Us.

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

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

An image given a second life in these travel-restricted times.

It was taken in 2014 near Malcoff, Derbyshire and is a straight repost of the original upload. Eccles Pike can be seen in the distance.

Processed for effect I figured the title spoke for itself. Looks best full-screen.

28th April 2014

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...

Macro Mondays "Translucent"

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 seagull looks like he has his feathers up as if he stole a piece of bread.

a very impressive youngster in a local forest last year, probably a female given the size of the talons

Northern Goshawk

accipiter gentilis

havik

autour des palombes

Habicht

Azor Común

Astore

Açor

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Another of my shots from my early visit to Knowlton Church.

The misty morning was a bonus this visit and what looks like mist in the lower forground,is in fact moisture on my grad filter.

I thought it has given another dimension to the scene,so I have left it in.

This only occurred due to the sun warming the filter in the cold conditions.

So many pictures of this old trawler, I thought I needed to try something different. I feel the trawler is getting a bit scruffy but still hundreds flock to it for a shot. But I've given it a seasonal effect, almost Christmassy!

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.

Osteospermum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the Calenduleae, one of the smaller tribes of the sunflower/daisy family Asteraceae. They are known as the daisybushes or African daisies. It has been given several common names: African daisy, South African daisy, Cape daisy and blue-eyed daisy. Osteospermum used to belong to the genus Dimorphotheca, but only the annual species remain in that genus; the perennials belong to Osteospermum. It has been given several common names: African daisy, South African daisy, Cape daisy and blue-eyed daisy. There are about 50 species, native to Africa, 35 species in southern Africa, and the southwestern Arabian Peninsula. They are half-hardy perennials or sub-shrubs. 33653

* 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

The Community Hall was built as the United Free Church to the design of JD Cairns in 1908 . It was built on the site of a previous, smaller United Free church, following a union with Crail West Church (now Holy Trinity Catholic Church). It is a typical Free Presbyterian Church building dating from the Edwardian period. Like many churches of this period, it used a style derived from Scottish precedents but also fitted in with the preference for late Gothic, often labelled Perpendicular, across Britain generally.

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The church had a typical Presbyterian plan. The emphasis on preaching produced a wide and relatively short central main vessel to the church. There are shallow transepts to either side to create more space to either side of the pulpit.

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There is a short chancel which is now used as a stage and would have been the sanctuary containing the communion table and chairs for elders. To the east is a church hall which is integrated into the design of the remainder of the building. The internal design of the space that was originally the church is particularly attractive. A quality is given to the space by its expressive roof form with the underside of the main trusses forming curves articulating the bays of the church. This arrangement is linked with the pairs of arches into the transepts. At the western end of the church is the original gallery.

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It is listed Category B. Externally the main feature is the octagonal tower which forms a minor landmark in the northern part of Crail on the A917 St Andrews Road.

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A fresh sparkler and one which has already given its few seconds of fiery light!

One of my attempts at the "Macro Mondays" theme "Festive Season".

Shot with a Friedrich "S-Coronar 25 mm F 1.4" lens on a Canon EOS R5.

I've never been one to shy away from a little harmless yet extravagant over-engineering and I was in perfect form the day before I took this photo with a completely excessive amount of work anchoring my tent into the snow with oversized snow pegs and buried blocks of ice which, had given the comedians camping with me plenty to work with.

A few hours after I'd finished work on my aptly labelled 'Fort Knox' we noticed some dark clouds beginning to appear on the horizon. I was so excited but they were quickly dismissed by the others in favour of the forecast which, was still calling for a calm night...

The next morning came and I woke to an aftermath of ripped and wrangled tents from a surprise storm that had kept everyone up frantically trying to save their gear and make it through.

As it would turn out, that was the best nights sleep I'd had in a while and now I was the only one up to enjoy the beautiful sunrise ❄️💨

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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)

Many of the formations are given descriptive names – sculpted by the harsh desert winds into weird shapes which constantly change over time. There are ‘monoliths’ and ‘mushrooms’, ‘ice cream cones’, ‘tents’ and ‘crickets’, as well as the majestic conical flat-topped ‘inselbergs’, to name but a few of the formations.

Beyond this in the ‘New Desert’ which is only accessible by 4WD or camel, the landscape becomes even whiter. The boulders crowd together, are higher and larger and everywhere weird shapes appear that might remind you of a chicken or a hawk, a troupe of dancers or an old men wearing a hat. The shapes change constantly as the light changes and you move around them and as the sun begins to set they turn a softly glowing pink.

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.

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.

Osteospermum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the Calenduleae, one of the smaller tribes of the sunflower/daisy family Asteraceae. They are known as the daisybushes or African daisies. It has been given several common names: African daisy, South African daisy, Cape daisy and blue-eyed daisy. Osteospermum used to belong to the genus Dimorphotheca, but only the annual species remain in that genus; the perennials belong to Osteospermum. It has been given several common names: African daisy, South African daisy, Cape daisy and blue-eyed daisy. There are about 50 species, native to Africa, 35 species in southern Africa, and the southwestern Arabian Peninsula. They are half-hardy perennials or sub-shrubs. 9541

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

George Davison

Truth Matters! Science Matters!

sunrise, atlantic beach, north carolina

Saturday morning has given us these bright colors in another sunrise to keep in our memories.

Photo taken at 07:42 AM with 41F (5ºC) outside temperature.

Is there a better way to start the day?

Have a good Saturday and try to be happy.

Press "L" to see the enlarged photo.

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Amanecer del Sábado, Madrid, España

La mañana del sábado nos ha regalado estos vistosos colores en otro amanecer para guardar en el recuerdo.

Foto tomada a las 07:42 AM con 5ºC de temperatura exterior.

¿Hay mejor manera de comenzar el día?

Pasad un buen sábado e intentad ser felices.

Pulsa "L" para ver la foto ampliada.

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!!

The Anholt Castle is a moated castle that was also the name given to the former city of Anholt, now a suburb of Isselburg in North Rhine-Westphalia. The origins of this castle lie in a fortress from the 12th century to secure the possession of the diocese of Utrecht (The Netherlands). Scourse: wikipedia.

……Ghostly goings on when we drove by here in October! All the trees, which all looked to be Oaks had huge white fleeces draped on the ground beneath them all!! We assumed it was to harvest the Acorns?! They have been cropped out and the shot given the Sliders Sunday treatment for added Ghostly affect. HSS, Alan:-).…….

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