Den Helder, The Netherlands
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I opened the window of my kitchen and I did this one hand held with AF and Stabilization activated.
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The Laugavegur is a famous trekking route in South-West Iceland from the hot springs area of Landmannalaugar to the glacial valley of Þórsmörk . It is noted for the wide variety of landscapes on its 55 km (34 mi) path. The route is typically completed over 2–4 days with potential stops at the mountain huts at Hrafntinnusker, Álftavatn, Hvanngil and Emstrur. An ultramarathon is held on the route each July. It is possible to combine the trek with the Fimmvörðuháls route which goes over the pass from Þórsmörk to Skógar for an additional one or two days or an additional 25 km (16 mi). Landmannalaugar, Þórsmörk, and Skógar are all reachable by bus during the summer. A bus from Hella connects with Álftavatn once a day during the summer.
~•~She held the Moon
the way she held her own Heart
as if it was the only light
that could guide her
through the darkest nights ༺♡༻
[Chrissie Pinney, Moon Love]
Hand held. Just a crop. Otherwise, this is SOOC. I love the riot of colors in my garden at this time of year.
Still busy taking classes. Missing Everyone!!!!!
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Heukelom (NL) 10-01-2009
NSR 1853 "Den Helder"
IC 1952 Venlo - Den Haag Centraal
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I official have a summer cold. I can't believe it, I've never had a summer cold. I must have picked it up when I went to my Veteran's clinic. That place is like walking through a petri dish. Anyway, I think the worst is over. The sore throat is gone. I no longer fill like I'm in fog bank. I do still have the annoying runny nose, but it's not as bad as it was. So, hopefully, it will have run it course by Monday. Just hanging around the house is driving me crazy
The Laugavegur is a famous trekking route in South-West Iceland from the hot springs area of Landmannalaugar to the glacial valley of Þórsmörk . It is noted for the wide variety of landscapes on its 55 km (34 mi) path. The route is typically completed over 2–4 days with potential stops at the mountain huts at Hrafntinnusker, Álftavatn, Hvanngil and Emstrur. An ultramarathon is held on the route each July. It is possible to combine the trek with the Fimmvörðuháls route which goes over the pass from Þórsmörk to Skógar for an additional one or two days or an additional 25 km (16 mi). Landmannalaugar, Þórsmörk, and Skógar are all reachable by bus during the summer. A bus from Hella connects with Álftavatn once a day during the summer.
The Laugavegur is a famous trekking route in South-West Iceland from the hot springs area of Landmannalaugar to the glacial valley of Þórsmörk . It is noted for the wide variety of landscapes on its 55 km (34 mi) path. The route is typically completed over 2–4 days with potential stops at the mountain huts at Hrafntinnusker, Álftavatn, Hvanngil and Emstrur. An ultramarathon is held on the route each July. It is possible to combine the trek with the Fimmvörðuháls route which goes over the pass from Þórsmörk to Skógar for an additional one or two days or an additional 25 km (16 mi). Landmannalaugar, Þórsmörk, and Skógar are all reachable by bus during the summer. A bus from Hella connects with Álftavatn once a day during the summer.
In the recently held vintage car rally in Delhi, all the cars participating were shown at Red Fort. This beauty, a 1936 old-timer Bentley 3.5 ltr. 2-door Vintage Sports Saloon full-size luxury car, when I saw I totally fell in love with it. It looked grand and amazingly stunning. To justify its grandeur I had to do some manipulation to the image. Putting a new background and removing reflections on the car. And how these little changes have made the subject stand-out and look its best!
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The Austonian held the crown of tallest building in Austin for nine years until The Independent surpassed it by only seven feet in 2019. Located at 200 Congress Ave., the 683-foot tall, 56-story building is a modern architectural icon in this rapidly growing city.
This post modern skyscraper was designed by Ziegler Cooper Architects of Houston. At the time of its completion in 2010, the Austrian was both the tallest building in Austin, and the tallest residential skyscraper in the United States west of the Mississippi River. Both distinctions are now held by The Independent, although another downtown Austin tower, Sixth and Guadalupe and still under construction, has already topped out at its final height of 865-feet and is scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2023.
Austin is the capital of the State of Texas, as well as the seat of Travis County. With a population of just under one million residents, Austin is the 11th largest city in the United States. The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos Metropolitan Area, now with a population of 2.3M, is one of the fastest growing large metropolitan areas in the country having added more than 579,000 residents since 2010.
The Laugavegur is a famous trekking route in South-West Iceland from the hot springs area of Landmannalaugar to the glacial valley of Þórsmörk . It is noted for the wide variety of landscapes on its 55 km (34 mi) path. The route is typically completed over 2–4 days with potential stops at the mountain huts at Hrafntinnusker, Álftavatn, Hvanngil and Emstrur. An ultramarathon is held on the route each July. It is possible to combine the trek with the Fimmvörðuháls route which goes over the pass from Þórsmörk to Skógar for an additional one or two days or an additional 25 km (16 mi). Landmannalaugar, Þórsmörk, and Skógar are all reachable by bus during the summer. A bus from Hella connects with Álftavatn once a day during the summer.
Drzewica , hand held .
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA + Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f / 2.8 - M42 mount with MFT adapter - which gives FF 100 mm focal length, the photo was taken at f / 2.8.
Everything took maybe "5 minutes" including the LrC treatment. Photo taken on the balcony of my wife's flowers.
Since this is an old manual lens, focus (and depth of field) was achieved manually using focus peaking..
The Laugavegur is a famous trekking route in South-West Iceland from the hot springs area of Landmannalaugar to the glacial valley of Þórsmörk . It is noted for the wide variety of landscapes on its 55 km (34 mi) path. The route is typically completed over 2–4 days with potential stops at the mountain huts at Hrafntinnusker, Álftavatn, Hvanngil and Emstrur. An ultramarathon is held on the route each July. It is possible to combine the trek with the Fimmvörðuháls route which goes over the pass from Þórsmörk to Skógar for an additional one or two days or an additional 25 km (16 mi). Landmannalaugar, Þórsmörk, and Skógar are all reachable by bus during the summer. A bus from Hella connects with Álftavatn once a day during the summer.
Eastern Blue-tongue Lizard/Skink (Tiliqua scincoides)
The shot I managed to get before it turned to go back down its hole.
The Laugavegur is a famous trekking route in South-West Iceland from the hot springs area of Landmannalaugar to the glacial valley of Þórsmörk . It is noted for the wide variety of landscapes on its 55 km (34 mi) path. The route is typically completed over 2–4 days with potential stops at the mountain huts at Hrafntinnusker, Álftavatn, Hvanngil and Emstrur. An ultramarathon is held on the route each July. It is possible to combine the trek with the Fimmvörðuháls route which goes over the pass from Þórsmörk to Skógar for an additional one or two days or an additional 25 km (16 mi). Landmannalaugar, Þórsmörk, and Skógar are all reachable by bus during the summer. A bus from Hella connects with Álftavatn once a day during the summer.
A different hand held capture taken here playing around with the reflection view and the overall scene captured. Not sure of I like this view with the reflection being partial of the lighthouse ... but this was more about the neat treeline there atop the rocky view. The trees look pretty cool I think leading over to the lighthouse.
I also liked this capture as you can see the other person that was there at this pretty time standing next to the red building staring at the pretty sunlight.
This capture also came just before the magical rainbow appeared above our heads, that I later framed over top of the lighthouse.
A glimpse of aged familiarity, a sight once routine now reserved for all but the most infrequent of passages, a cigar-banded bluebonnet of the special duty variety guides two contemporaries (in livery only) and 62 cars of miscellaneous freight from Chicagoland towards classification at BNSF's terminal at Galesburg via local L CHI1051 09A, conjuring memories lost 27 years prior of when the great Santa Fe ruled the Transcon and the prairie towns like Ransom which dot its bucolic Illinois landscape.
We held our annual butterfly count in Winneshiek County today, as part of the North American Butterfly Association's seasonal counts. The counts started as a summer Fourth of July count back in 1975 before morphing into more seasonal sessions. Lake Meyer Park's count still happens right around the Fourth of July and takes place on a Sunday so any interested people can come and participate. If you like butterflies, find a count happening near you this summer! Check out NABA for more info. This female black swallowtail was hanging out at Chipera Prairie, one of the neat natural areas that lies within Lake Meyer Park's counting circle.
I held a blue wine glass up to the sky on a sunny day, and shot into with the center with a macro lens. The bubbles in the glass were accentuated by the sunlight.
HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, HNLMS Schorpioen, Dutch Navy Museum, Dan Helder
If you admire stories of unlikely survival like I do, the history of the Abraham Crijnssen is fascinating, and also an example of the ingenuity which is common throughout Dutch history. This ship, like the other ships of the Dutch East Indies surface fleet that attempted to defend Java in February 1942, should be at the bottom of the Java Sea right now, except for the crafty if unconventional ingenuity of its captain -- who took the game of Dress Up to a whole new level...
The Battle of the Java Sea was a horrific disaster for the Allies, who lost 10 major ships and 2300 sailors. The Imperial Japanese Navy only lost 36 sailors, no ships. In the aftermath and fall of Java, the Abraham Crijnssen was ordered to retreat to Australia, a perilous week-long trip which would leave the ship, which was slow and lacked modern air defenses, an easy target for air strikes. Imperial Navy aircraft had already sunk many Allied ships at the time. Entrusted with the lives of 10 officers, 48 sailors and a female nurse, the captain knew that to simply sail out into the open toward Australia was a death sentence. So he came up with a wild but clever plan: an island is an island is an island...and the Java Sea around Malaysia and Indonesia has well over 18,000 of them. Why not look like one?
He sailed immediately for the nearest island, had his crew cut down as much foliage as possible, and then proceeded to cover the entire surface area of the 184 foot long ship with foliage. What metal the crew couldn't conceal, they painted to look like rocks. Then, they sat...until night. Knowing that the Abraham Crijnssen would leave a visible wake, the captain could only sail her at night. During daylight, the ship was parked close in to "other" larger islands, immobile. This must have been incredibly nerve-wracking, especially as aircraft were heard overhead. Yet in spite of how crazy this sounds, the Abraham Crijnssen pulled safely into Fremantle, Australia eight days later, the only Dutch ship of her class to survive the invasion. Don't believe me? See for yourself:
www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/hnlms-abraham-crijn...
The ship behind the Crijnssen, the HNLMS Schorpioen, an armored ram from the 1860s, is only interesting from its unique survival from the scrapyard, a relic of the age between sail and steam.
While visiting a wonderful friend in Den Helder, he took me to see the Abraham Crijnssen and the interesting Dutch Navy Museum. Thank you for the visit Ralph!
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The Laugavegur is a famous trekking route in South-West Iceland from the hot springs area of Landmannalaugar to the glacial valley of Þórsmörk . It is noted for the wide variety of landscapes on its 55 km (34 mi) path. The route is typically completed over 2–4 days with potential stops at the mountain huts at Hrafntinnusker, Álftavatn, Hvanngil and Emstrur. An ultramarathon is held on the route each July. It is possible to combine the trek with the Fimmvörðuháls route which goes over the pass from Þórsmörk to Skógar for an additional one or two days or an additional 25 km (16 mi). Landmannalaugar, Þórsmörk, and Skógar are all reachable by bus during the summer. A bus from Hella connects with Álftavatn once a day during the summer.
This photo somehow looked better with the kind of muted colours and slight softness taken on my Pentax ME Super 35mm film camera compared to my super sharp Sony camera. So this photo gets loaded...
It was the tree and the sun creating a triangle of darkness caught my attention shortly after sunrise at Derwentwater...
A beautiful style at the moment of explosion. The performer stood still and held the firework calmly, even though the sound and heat of the explosin should have been enormous. At Hada Hachiman Shrine, Toyohashi, Japan.
豊橋の羽田八幡宮での手筒花火奉納です。最後の爆発で、美しく決まった姿です。
Kaaphoofd, Den Helder, North-Holland, the Netherlands.
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I held my breath from my kayak just to see who could do it the longest and this rubber-nosed swamp donkey won.
Fortunately, moose are adept swimmers and can hold their breath underwater for a full minute. Their large nostrils act as valves to keep water out as they dive up to six metres. When colder weather comes they feast on underwater plants that are out of reach for other species. Canon 40D