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Well, you’ve just found it! That's guaranteed on this spot!
This golden hour shot was taken at Cape Espichel (“Cabo Espichel”), Portugal. This windswept, rocky headland, about 40 kilometres south of Lisbon, is a wild, desolate place, where giant waves crash against sheer, towering cliffs. It is a place to appreciate the raw beauty of nature and is often a great spot for sunsets.
From the 13th century onwards this spot has been a place of pilgrimage. Legend tells that Virgin Mary was seen there, riding a giant mule. The church – “Nossa Senhora do Cabo Church” (Our Lady of the Cape, protectress of fishermen) – was built in 1701 and is worth a visit, to admire the ornately finished interior, beautifully painted ceiling and experience the tranquillity of the place.
Outside of the church are two symmetrical accommodation wings, which housed the sanctuary’s pilgrims and that are now abandoned, starting to show signs of ruin.
In this photo, taken at sunset and with the sea at my back, I focused on the architectural ensemble formed by the church and the now abandoned sanctuary’s side buildings.
NB: This is the color version of a monochromatic image that I've posted here a few months ago and that can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/rbaptista/51424217495/in/dateposted/
Other photos I've taken at this spot can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/rbaptista/albums/72157719782471977
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Cabo Espichel, Portugal
© All rights reserved Rui Baptista. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Hello Flickr Friends ❤️💙
It's been awhile, I've missed being here admiring and enjoying your photos, I look forward to catching up soon! :) I hope you are well, enjoying the season in your neck of the woods!:)
....travelling is a privilege, grateful and lucky to be able to experience a new place!
. .. Newfoundland was a bucket list place to visit. The 2 things I hoped to see most was an iceberg and a Puffin. yay :) (Puffin photo coming soon)
.....As such you can imagine how incredible this was to witness part of this iceberg falling off and crashing into the ocean!... ..still in complete awe! lol . The sound and details of it collapsing!..the wave it created. the chances to witness such a thing in nature! (and safely) :) I will treasure the moment forever.
The color, and size was magnificent! every angle is a completely new look to an iceberg. I will be posting more:)
Even though I researched the best time to see icebergs, it does not always guarantee you will. Apparently last year there were none in this area. Twillingate.(part of iceberg alley)...it all depends on the weather, currents, wind direction etc.
"Q: How much of an iceberg is below water?".....Answer below at the end:)
some more fascinating facts if you are interested:
Source:
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"A: Almost 90% of an iceberg is under water, hence the phrase “tip of the iceberg.” Its maximum width under water is 20-30% larger than you can see at the surface. The average depth, or draught of an iceberg, is slightly less than its apparent length above water."
"With life I get involved.
I suffer if it is to suffer,
I celebrate if there's a reason,
love without guarantees,
mistake the path, correct whatever is possible,
I lose with the same dignity with which I gain.
Because the only thing I don't want to take with me is the misfortune of not having enjoyed every second of the adventure of being who I am."(Pe Fabio de Melo)
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It really doesn't matter...
Take one of these with your phone or with Canon's latest techno wizardry., the end result will always be the same
Wow! What a bird!
2018 10 01
We can not guarantee the destination of this hall.
This leads to an unknown world.
Well, it's up to you.
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NEW @ PECULIAR THINGS .pt. MARY JANE VASE
Ceramic bong decor with adjustable smoke effect. menu for public, private, on, off and a quick puff
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DRD - Vagabond Two - Trailer
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But because of your sacrifice and bravery, we are still free
With gratitude to all vets - past, present and future
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees
They're singing with the dead
Overhead...
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04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
#MacroMonday
#Puzzle
...there's a secure vaccine against Covid-19? I wish it would happen so soon. What definitely is guaranteed, though, is that from today it's 45 days until Christmas Eve :) And whether you celebrate or not, I'm sure that on everybody's wishlist is also a vaccine.
I had little – or rather no – other choice for "Puzzle" but this Ravensburger Christmas bauble jigsaw puzzle ball, because I don't own any other puzzles. I love to play Adventure games, and puzzles are a part of the gaming routine, but real life puzzles? Nil. So back to the bauble: It depicts a cosy forest Christmas scene with lots of snow, a starry blue hour sky, a Christmas tree (of course) and the forest animals – such as deer, squirrels, rabbits, birds – gathering around various feeders; in short it depicts almost everything that makes you go "Aaawwwww!" when you think of Christmas (please see the fourth comment to see the whole bauble) :) At first I really didn't know how to photograph this pretty puzzle ball in an interesting way. But then I thought "I puzzled it together, so I can also take it apart again, let's take a look inside." What looked like a fragile construction consisting of 60 parts (diameter of the ball: 7 cm / 2,7 inches, the small round parts which you can see here each have a diameter of 4 mm / 0,15 inches) proved to be very sturdy and definitely "take-apart-resistant", but in the end I succeeded to pull out one piece from the starry blue hour sky.
On the inside, the pieces are white, of course, but they are also numbered, and at first I thought I'd pick piece No 1, but then I remembered that I'd already shot numbers on a toy piece for "one Color", so I looked for a nice puzzle piece pattern instead and found this star. I secured the backlit puzzle ball between two large pieces of modeling clay to prevent it from rolling away (it had happened a few times in the beginning), and photographed directly through the hole where piece No. 60 had been; the shape of the vignette is the negatice space of missing piece No. 60.
The photo is a single 40 MP High-Res mode shot, and I had to do a lot of dusting and fuzz removal. Those dark spots, however, are part of the plastic pieces, so I didn't remove them all. Processed in Topaz DeNoise AI ("Low Light" mode at N: 7, S: 67, R: 3, CN 14), Luminar 4 (Detail enhancement – small at 79, medium at 41, large at 3), Viveza and Analog Efex.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, stay safe and take care!
Noch 45 Tage bis... zu einem sicheren Covid-19-Impfstoff für alle? Schön wär's. Was wir aber alle ganz sicher in 45 Tagen feiern werden: richtig, Heiligabend :) Und ein sicherer Impfstoff dürfte auch auf jedermanns und jederfraus Wunschzettel stehen. Warum aber dieser Schlenker zu Weihnachten, wenn das Thema doch "Puzzle" ist? Weil das einzige "richtige" Puzzle, das ich im Haus habe, ein Ravensburger "Christmas Puzzle Ball" ist. Bestehend aus 60 erstaunlich fest zusammenhaltenden Puzzleteilen.
Zuerst wusste ich nicht recht, wie ich ihn ansprechend fotografieren sollte; von außen ist er nett anzuschauen, zeigt eine Weihnachtswaldszene mit viel Schnee, einem Sternenhimmel, natürlich einer geschmückten Tanne und vielen Tieren, darunter Rotwild, Eichhörnchen, Hasen und vielen Vögeln, die sich an diversen Futterkrippen zum Weihnachtsschmaus eingefunden haben. So weit, so hübsch. Aber ob das ein spannendes Foto ergeben würde? Also dachte ich mir, ich entferne mal eines der Puzzleteile und schaue hinein. Die Rückseite der Puzzleteile ist weiß und jedes trägt eine Nummer. Zunächst habe ich auch auf die Nummern fokussiert, genauer auf Teil Nr. 1, aber dann fiel mir wieder ein, dass ich bereits für "one Colour" vor zwei Wochen die winzigen Nummern auf einem Spielzeugteil fotografiert hatte. Deshalb habe ich dann nach einem interessanten Puzzlemuster Ausschau gehalten – und fand diesen Stern.
Von hinten beleuchtet (und die Kugel mit zwei Stücken Bastelknete fixiert, weil sie anfangs immer wegrollte) und direkt durch das Loch, das Puzzleteil Nr. 60 hinterlassen hat, hindurchfotografiert. Die Ränder der Vignette sind also der negative Raum des fehlenden Puzzleteilchens. Ich musste ganz schön viele Fussel in PS entfernen; die dunklen Pünktchen sind aber in den Plastikteilchen drin, also habe ich nicht alle von ihnen weggestempelt. Entwickelt in Topaz DeNoise AI ("Low Light" Modus, N: 7, S: 67, R: 3, CN 14), Luminar 4 (Detailverbesserung, klein: 79, mittel: 41, groß 3), Viveza und Analog Efex.
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, bleibt gesund!
Well it looks like Kaiser's guarantee has expired - lol. And no this was not a Christmas present - I found the photo in my archives. It has been too dark lately to take any new photos.
“We aren’t guaranteed the time we think we need to mend fences with those we love.” - Eileen Wilks
This scene made me think of the movie "Steel Magnolias" . It is a movie about family relationships and how they deal with the death of one of their own. In these times, it was a sober reminder to stay connected with some of my family and to make sure that all is well with us. Life is short and if there are things to be said, we should say them.
"Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Owning me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you" -Eddie Vedder
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Hair: Modulus - Clay Hair base
Head: LeLUTKA - Eon
Eyes: Avi Glam - "Prodigy Eyes" in 101
Body: Legacy Classic M
Outfit: Hoorenbeek - NG Outfit "Momoa"
Mystery surrounds me, and I wonder where I'm going
There's a cloud above me and it seems to hide the way
I'm going straight ahead, 'cause it's the only way I know
I want to leave the past, and leave just for today
Now then tell me baby, do you need my love?
Tell me baby, are you thinking of me?
Tell me baby, what it is you need?
What kind of satisfaction guaranteed?
"Satisfaction Guaranteed"~The Firm
Provided that survival is guaranteed, almost all of us are instinctively drawn to the path of least resistance. However, although expedient in the moment, this option almost always leads to decline and atrophy; it points in the opposite direction of your dreams and ambitions. So, to lead the life you wish to live, you must learn to embrace challenges and fight the urge to walk these regressive paths. {thekaizeneffect.com}
Humans are hard-wired to follow the path of least resistance
The amount of effort required to do something influences what we think we see, finds a new study, suggesting we're biased towards perceiving anything challenging to be less appealing. {dailyscience.com}
My comment:
We're on a slippery slope once we make it a habit to follow the line of least resistance: life is an endless uphill battle till the end of our journey on this earth -“One thing is absolutely certain, namely, that victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance.” Winston Churchill
Guaranteed headache from any of them, personally I steer clear of the flavoured gins. Give me a good old Seagrams gin, slice of lime or cucumber, heaps of ice and a decent tonic…and don’t add any of those fashionable ‘botanical’ extras TVM.
Sheet lead, lead pipes. Fuji X-Pro1 plus Helios 44M-7 at F8. It probably means to state the obvious, but let me say it nevertheless: social inequality in my country, the UK, is not just 'happening', it is not 'an accident'. It is actually organised and systemic and institutional. It has been introduced by man. It is not a product of nature.
Choices, choices. With guaranteed sun today it offered a wealth of possibilities - and that was just on the Yarmouth branch itself for this LSL charter replaying the summer Saturdays of old when 40s worked the Newcastle - Yarmouth and the Manchester - Skegness. The Inter-City liveried air-conditioned Mark 3 stock mated to the old warrior was definitely not a match of yore though. The glorious weather made the 6 mile round hike to get here worthwhile and only two other photographers were here, one who had arrived in his canoe!
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Testing a recently serviced Kodak Signet 35.
This is a surprisingly good little camera! I'm often pleasantly surprised by the quality of images it delivers. The Ektar f3.5 lens is a Tessar, so sharpness is pretty much guaranteed.
Agfa APX400 developed in D-76 1:1