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A fairly early morning shot after camping at the top of the glen.
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GBRf's 66733 edges across the North Viaduct on the Horseshoe curve with 6E45 0807 Fort William to North Blyth alumina empties.
The glen in this instance is the snappily named Achadh-innis Chailein which leads up to Loch Lyon and Bens Dothaidh and a' Chuirn.
Re the viaduct, the following (abridged) text from the Canmore site - this viaduct was built by Formans & McCall of Glasgow to carry the West Highland Rly across the Allt Kinglas; it opened on 11 August 1894, and remains in use. It is of lattice girder type and its length of 576 ft (175.6m) includes nine spans of 60 ft (18.3m); it was built by hoisting the girders into position with cantilever lifting tackle.
24th November 2021
Do you know little by little you are living inside me
But with you there is a transfiguration
For instance we drink wine, as if a carnation is falling inside us
A tree is working tick tock beside us
My stomach was, my mind was—this little bit remains.
You lean towards the carnation, I take and pass it to you voilà
And you pass it more beautiful to another
The other passes it along n'est-ce pas
So goes the carnation from hand to hand.
You see then, you and I are growing a passion,
I'm touching on you, I'm warming up to you, this is not that
Look how, seven colors become as one
We are silently uniting.
Edip Cansever -1957
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“Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.” Oscar Wilde
Remember
In an instance we remember. a smell, song, taste, sound, word.
Our eyes can't hide it. The sadness of those who have passed. You may be gone but never forgotten. Memories locked up tight in the mind like unearthly treasures. We miss you and look back upon you fondly. Thoughts make one smile and laugh. The eyes can't hide the sadness of loss. The memories bring smiles and comfort. We miss you but will never forget you.
This find is another instance of driving around the block to get another look at a find and finding another. When I saw this former church now serving as the Masonic Lodge I thought the architecture looked awfully familiar. It is almost identical to an abandoned church we passed by in Montana.
In railway photographic circles a "Going Away" shot is often looked upon as being unfavourable. If that is the case then I suppose the same should apply to bird photography.
Photographing puffins as they cross your field of vision isn't that easy, they pass by at an alarming speed. Ones coming towards you are easier but alas at Bempton the cliffs can be 300 foot high and the puffins tend to nest some way down the cliff. What that means is that often they disappear out of view when they start to get within range. These two flew across my field of vision and by the time I had seen them approaching and focussed on them they were turning to head out to see.
In this instance because I like puffins and as there is an element of symmetry between these two puffins I thought it became a worthwhile posting.
It is hard to get out away from the family to get shoots sometimes. In this instance we were on a camping trip in the Tetons. I kept telling myself I was going to get a sunrise over the lake but the cold weather always stopped me. This was the last night there, it was now or never. I brought a chair, set up the tripod and waited. I was a bit surprised how many people were out around the lake at this hour. One burly dude in flannel (can you trust a dude alone at a lake in flannel?) sundered up to my spot, just about 10 feet from and sat. And sat. He just stood there looking the same direction I was looking. I could almost feel him looking at my gear out of the corner of my eye. Finally he mumbles, almost as if he were talking to the mountain "6d?" Ok, now I am even more nervous, he knows my gear. He was still not looking at me at all, could he feel the presence of the Canon? "Yes" I replied. Silence. I am ready for anything at this point, testosterone in overdrive. What felt like an eternity passed (about 15 seconds in my overly dramatic mind). Then he reaches into his coat...this is it, he is getting a knife, or a gun..I get ready to rush him, almost leaping across the rocks..then he turns, smiles, and pulls out a Canon 6d also. "Me too" he says. We proceed to talk shop while I am still shaking form the adrenaline rush. This image is for you creepy flannel man.
I already posted one image from this shoot in blue, pre-sunrise. Truth is I liked it better, but I thought I should revisit the set of brackets I shot that morning.
I am always drawn to images that are dark. Usually very dark. They just seem to pull me into the image. The thing is, I keep trying to shot dark images, and process dark images. I just can't seem to get them the way I want, dark. I almost forced myself to keep this dark while I processed it. Looking back, I wish I had gone into the lake to shoot this, it would have been more dramatic.
This was an instance of where I looked ahead on the tree this bird flew to, predicted where it might be in the clear, focused on the gap and it showed up.
Are you ready to freeze for a view like this? That’s exactly what we did that night and at the very start of the evening we thought that London House terrace was a good starting point but since the sunset wasn’t spectacular we decided to come down and try to find some good compositions from the river. Ultra wide lens was a great option to fit the entire scene in the frame and use the ice blocks as a leading lines in this instance. I’m glad that we walked away with a few keepers and freezing wasn’t for nothing. What do you think?
Princess Chelsea is a lot less twee than fellow kiwi band The Beths, for instance, but the songs come from the heart and the whopping 7 live member band played for almost an hour. Lead singer Chelsea Lee Nikke was quite a ham with her Judas Priest shirt. You could tell she might be a little anxious but she rocked out like she was meant to play stadiums.
Though I photographed the entire set, this was the last photo I took of Nikke when the song were all done and she was fooling around with her band mates. There were no other photographers at the show that I saw and it's a small enough venue that you don't need a photopass and there's no three song limit.
Whenever I photograph a show that actually does require a photopass (most recently Angel Olsen), I am often with other photographers who are obsessed with access to the show, many of whom stay for only just those three songs and miss out on the rest of the music. I prefer seeing bands in smaller clubs and I know for a fact that the first three songs usually have the worst lighting and the lowest amount of energy compared to the remainder of the set. How sad to experience just the first three songs of every band and be constantly doing tones of work just to cover the next first three songs of another band.
For some, music is a living. For me, it's just what I live for.
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I believe that everything can tell a story.
Sometimes you can look at an object or place and get clues to fill in the information. For instance, this house. It’s quite obvious that something happened here. Part of the siding is missing, there is a broken window and the doors are either boarded up or barricaded. One of the columns supporting the porch is gone. The yard is mowed though, surely someone still cares about this place?
Other times you are given the information. Let’s be honest, I didn’t end up here without already knowing something about what happened. And it was definitely apparent that something happened. I passed big piles of debris with heavy equipment moving around. The sound of construction workers banging hammers echoed through the landscape. Both information and context of the surrounding environment can result in some powerful storytelling.
However nothing would prepare me for what comes next. As I was taking a photo of this house, I was approached by a lady walking down the street. “Are you lost?” she says. She didn’t see my camera but she noticed that I was traveling down a street that had been deserted. Long driveways that lead to nowhere, piles of debris on both sides and no vehicles around. I was in front of one of the few houses still standing on that block.
“No”, I said. I briefly told her who I was and explained that I was a photographer. I told her that I liked to tell stories. Her eyes started to tear up, and then she proceeded to tell me her account of December 10, 2021. The night that a wicked EF4 tornado ripped through the center of Mayfield, Kentucky.
She told me that she didn’t lose anyone but she knew others who have lost someone or lost their belongings. Even though the twister occurred almost a year and a half ago by this point, she was still helping people affected by the storm. Some who lost everything. Then she switched tones and started talking about growing up in Mayfield and living in this neighborhood. She said she needed someone to talk to and it was God’s work that we both ended up meeting each other this day.
“One final thing”, she said. “…Mayfield is here to stay”. She wanted me to emphasize with my photos that despite the destruction, the community is deeply rooted here and rebuilding. It may look rough now, but the people who live here still have hope. Ms. Donna then thanked me for listening and said it made her day getting to talk to me. It made my day getting to talk to her too.
Today’s post will mark the beginning of a small series that highlights Mayfield since the twister that passed through in 2021. While some photos will show the devastation from this tragic day, I hope that you are also able to see the hope that still shines through in this community.
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A wonderful long light instance in Skjelfjorden fjord on the Norwegian Lofoten islands. It was here where Briitish Troops had a naval station during the submarine war with Germany, rests of which can still be seen further afar in the fjord.
As amazing as the Lofoten might look in bright sunlight, their Northern character reveals itself more in stormy weather as I feel.
I've just returned home from a weekend away with some golfing buddies, staying in the Dorset coastal town of Swanage, a lovely place. I shared a room with a friend of mine and as often happens in these situations, after a hearty dinner and a few too many drinks, the room will all too often reverberate with the sound of the snoring golfer. I'm sure I'm as guilty as the next person when it comes to snoring but in this instance my friend managed to nod off before me (damn!) and the chainsaw duly started. I then could not sleep a wink and tossed and turned and covered my ears with a pillow, to no avail, I could not sleep. So at 5:30am I decided to grab my camera and go down to Swanage harbour to get a few sunrise shots. Sunrise was not til 6:22 AM and I had a bit of time to kill so I decided to set the camera on a rock to steady it and shoot a couple of long exposures, this being the first shot of the morning.
As it turned out there was no glorious sunrise to photograph. The dawn light revealed a dull low hanging cloud cover that didn't lift until later in the morning. In the end, despite being out and shooting for more than an hour I came away with very little that was worth keeping. But as any photographer will tell you, just to be out with a camera always makes it worthwhile. (At least that's what I keep telling myself!)
When I posted this picture (www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/51798907126/in/datepo...) I realized I still had so many nice pictures from my central Asia trip that I couldn't ignore to show.
For instance the smashing architecture of the old Uzbekistan era, and the amazing craftsmanship how the interior of mosques and mausolea was made, is alone a trip worth to Uzbekistan. I already showed the Registan earlier (www.flickr.com/photos/115540984@N02/51169723336/in/datepo...), a world wonder IMO.
This picture is in an area of ca 1 ha (the Shah-i-Zinda In Samarkand), where ca 20 mausolea, partly dating back to the 11th century show the richness and incredible wealth in that period. More information you can find here (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah-i-Zinda).
20 September 2019 I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.
Although this photograph appears to be a street scene caught on the fly -an instance of what Henri Cartier-Bresson called the “decisive moment” -it was actually staged for the camera by Ruth Orkin and her model.
“The idea for this picture had been in my mind for years, ever since I had been old enough to go through the experience myself,” Orkin later wrote. While traveling alone in Italy, she met the young woman in the photograph at a hotel in Florence and together they set out to reenact scenes from their experiences as lone travellers.
“We were having a hilarious time when this corner of the Piazza della Repubblica suddenly loomed on our horizon,” the photographer recalled. “Here was the perfect setting I had been waiting for all these years… And here I was, camera in hand, with the ideal model!
All those fellows were positioned perfectly, there was no distracting sun, the background was harmonious, and the intersection was not jammed with traffic, which allowed me to stand in the middle of it for a moment.” The picture, with its eloquent blend of realism and theatricality, was later published in Cosmopolitan magazine as part of the story “Don’t Be Afraid to Travel Alone.”
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website
yet another panoramic view of the crystalline transparency of air, water and light high up in Norway's North.
A rather relaxing scene to an otherwise wonderful and eventful weekend!! Along Forest Road 52, in lonesome Lewis County's Cascades region, this unnamed creek simply flowed freely for all to bask in its immediate glory.
Photo captured via Minolta Maxxum AF Zoom 28-85mm F/3.5-4.5 Lens. Western Cascades Lowlands and Valleys section within the Cascades Range. Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Lewis County, Washington. Late October 2022.
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Sometimes you pick the horse but in rare and exceptional instances, the horse picks you. 8 years ago, I drove out to west Texas to buy my first horse and when I walked up to the 1 year old stallion pasture, I was greeted by over 20 stallions ranging in a variety of colors and temperaments. I didn't know much about horses at this point but I knew I wanted a horse that would be a good companion and train easily. Well, this cinnamon boy walks straight up to me, lowers his head, and gently presses his face against my torso. I of course melt into a puddle while I stroke his face, and when I was done I walked away. The sea of stallions were moving around us and the owners while we walked but the same horse continued to follow close behind. When I stopped, he stopped. When I walked, he walked. That's when I decided he's the one. He picked me. I kindly said to him "I guess I'm your huckleberry..." and it stuck-- I named him Huck. He was a quick learner in ground work, and didn't buck once under saddle while he was being trained with rider weight. He has been the perfect first horse for this city girl and I love him so.
Huck - Red Roan - 9 years old
The breeder's site: www.mahorses.com
This was one of those instances when I was out to shoot the sunset, but it wasn't very special. Turning to my left (south) however, the clouds were lit up like they were on fire.
The peaks in the foreground, from left to right, are Eagle Mtn, Buck Knob and Bell Knob. Centered in the rear is the valley of the upper Hiwassee River. On the horizon to the right, above Bell Knob, is Georgia's tallest mountain, Brasstown Bald. If you look real close you can see the visitor center tower at the summit.
On our lake we have quite a bit of brush which is really unremarkable. In this instance with fresh layer of beautiful snow, we have a true standout.
We stumbled across this peaceful scene as we neared the end of the Jordan Valley. There's nothing especially special about it; it's one that's repeated countless times throughout New Zealand... However, in this instance, the rolling *bush-covered hills, the lush grass, and the mostly Jersey herd caught our attention....
*Bush is the New Zealand term for "Forest"...!
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the oh so beloved and admired Romanesco cauliflower closeup :), another instance ...
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From the 50501 protest in Denver, Colorado. The U.S. flag code (which is not legally enforceable, BTW), specifically says that the flag is not to be inverted “except as a signal of dire distress in instance of extreme danger to life or property.” I think what's currently going on in America certainly qualifies.
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Autumn colours at the Sir Thomas Phillips Weir in the Roe Valley Country Park, Limavady, Northern Ireland.
The two best known instances of water power being exploited in the Roe are seen in the installation of Ireland’s first hydro-electric turbine in 1896 and the use of water for the flourishing flax industry in both the 17th and 18th centuries.
However, the earliest known use of power from the red river can be traced to a much earlier date. While it has long been known that the Norman invaders of the 12th Century made use of water power from the Roe, it has been suggested by recent archaeological evidence that the monks who lived in the area made use of sophisticated water mills before any Norman French had set foot in Ireland.
The next known use of the river for power comes from the modernising English soldier, Sir Thomas Phillips. Phillips was a professional soldier, who has left a significant mark on the town of Limavady, with some commentators suggesting that without his vigour and zeal, the town as we know it might today be nothing more than another small village.
Phillips was one of the leading figures in the plantation of Ulster, serving the Crown through warfare as a ‘servitor’ and also as chief advisor to the Crown on the plantation of County Londonderry.
Phillips was granted some 3,500 acres in the Roe Valley, in addition to 500 in Castledawson, which he described as “the horsepond of Limavady” and the “cabbage patch of Castledawson.”
He did, however, immediately set about making improvements to his new territory. He extended and repaired the O’Cahan Castle and dug out a surrounding ditch.
Other works included a ‘pleasure garden’, a fish-pond, an orchard, a ‘malt house’ for brewing beer as well as a host of embattlements.
It was Phillips who built what remains today of a ‘weir’ in the Roe, having constructed a water mill and a mile long race. It has been suggested, however, that the race was more likely a renovated version of the old race built by the Normans for their own mill centuries earlier.
An interesting fact about Sir Thomas Phillips reveals him as the man who applied for the licence for the brewery at Bushmills, which still produces world-famous whiskey to this day.
It wasn’t until the development of the linen industry, however, that the Roe was to be fully exploited. The Roe Valley was an ideal location for the process of linen production, commonplace throughout Ireland on a large scale from the late 17th Century onwards.
SG50 National Day Parade, Singapore 国庆——新加坡
What is SG50? Well, it represents the little red dot that we’ve come to know as home. The logo celebrates the Singaporean spirit – signifying that our dreams are not limited by the physical size of our island nation.
Well in this instance , recycling !! Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 04/01/25 -- Seasonal !!
So here we are with a random shot of a recycling bin left out for the dustman after the Christmas festivities and obviously a seasonal bi-product is the amount of rubbish and recycling that is generated by many - next week it will be proper rubbish to be collected and I wonder how full to overflowing the black bins will be . I am glad to say as a rule my green bin is usually full but not overflowing and the black bin is usually no more than two thirds full or less . I did note this year that most folk left their bins out on the usual day only for it not to be collected !! There is always an alteration to collection times this time of the year so that the bin men get time off for the bank holidays !!
So for our music this week , it has to be a track from an album called " Recycler " !
First the electric version , then the wooden version from the film and then ZZ Top talking about playing on the film !!
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In this instance, the background artwork (a pen & ink & watercolor rendering) is licensed to yours truly. No attribution is necessary or required.
Btw- folks, I am heading in a new direction with my artwork but at this juncture, I am not divulging "the direction" until I get fully established. I will say only that a recent development in my hobby (slash) digital artist aspirations has opened a new and exciting horizon which I intend to pursue (God willing). No, I will not be abandoning flickr..........unless flickr abandons me.
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long time ago, old Japanese respected nature as their gods.
for instance, big rocks, mountains and big rivers, which were difficult to move and control by human's power.
it might seem ridiculous, but I think respects of nature has a meaning to keep the nature as it is and consequently keep the nature cycle around there.
taken at the same place with different angle of "rock and water waves".
Appreciate all of your visits, great comments and supports my dear friends and visitors.
With Elk Island National Park closed and pretty much sticking close to home with the exception of getting out for groceries, I haven't really had much of a chance to shoot wilkdlife as of late, and when I do it seems that it has been from quite a distance.
I was lucky in this instance that this one had ventured close to the road. Shot from my car. I normally like to get a much lower shooting angle, but am pleased with how the ripples showed up shooting from a higher vantage point.
“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies for instance.” ...John Ruskin
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Photo of Nason Creek captured via Minolta Maxxum AF 16mm Fish-Eye F/2.8 Lens. Washington's Central Cascades Range. Wenatchee/Chelan Highlands section within the North Cascades Region. Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Chelan County, Washington. Late October 2021.
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While I sometimes struggle to emphasize the actual size of massive trees like the Redwoods and Sequoias, I also struggle to include humans or human-made things in my pictures. While at the redwood groves, there were a few instances where I had people walking through my frame, and instead of taking the picture with them, I instinctively waited until they passed to take the image. After the week, I only had about five pictures where I intentionally included people in my shot. So I guess the struggle will stay on for a while. Today's shot is an image of a massive Redwood I took at the Drury-Chaney trail. While composing this image, I noticed my wife admiring the tree and how her being in the frame conveyed size so well. She was initially standing to my left in the same pose but out of the frame. After I composed the image, I asked her to change position and to recreate the pose. Thankfully she was in the mood to oblige, and I got this amazing picture out of it. One thing that surprised me about this image was the size of the ferns, and I didn’t think they were that big until I started to look at the photos.
Went into the city (Perth) the other day and wandered round with my camera, This is actually a small road that is surrounded by new developments. The colourful fencing makes a great scene and in this instance looks really good in B&W too.
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A dolmen or cromlech is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more vertical megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus. Small pad-stones may be wedged between the cap and supporting dolmens are trash
stones to achieve a level appearance. In many instances, the covering has weathered away, leaving only the stone "skeleton" of the mound intact.
It remains unclear when, why and by whom the earliest dolmens were made. The oldest known are found in Western Europe, dating from c 7,000 years ago. Archaeologists still do not know who erected these dolmens, which makes it difficult to know why they did it. They are generally all regarded as tombs or burial chambers, despite the absence of clear evidence for this. Human remains, sometimes accompanied by artefacts, have been found in or close to the dolmens which could be scientifically dated using radiocarbon dating. However, it has been impossible to prove that these remains date from the time when the stones were originally set in place.
Number 10 on the playlist I was given (the list of cover songs) is Come Together, the Beatles classic, but in this instance performed magnificently by Gary Clark Jr.
And yes, I did come to a fairly obvious conclusion in how to interpret this song title into a picture!
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This was one of the rare instances in my birding and photography experience where a species was completely unexpected (by me, not by others) and it showed upright before sunrise on the cliffs by Prince Edward Point. I was prepared for the spring migration of brightly-coloured Warblers to begin; not for some tardy bird from the North to be heading home for summer. Instead of songbirds filling the morning air with their noisy and tuneful interactions, we found the species that doesn’t have a song.
But like the other migrants, she just flew in from down south and boy were her arms tired! The morning was awash in small insects of varying types, and this bird was cleaning up everything she could find. She was gone in twenty minutes, moving on northward.
Because I have had most of my experience with the species in Algonquin Park or in a small corner of a forest southeast of Ottawa, always in the winter and always on its coldest days, it was also quite striking to see one in the spring sunshine.
September 07, 2016
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I was working from home today so I was able to bend my schedule a bit to allow for an early morning photo session as the sun was rising.
I was hoping to shoot some morning due, but the temperature is rising again and there wasn't very much of that.
Luckily for me this Blue Jay decided to stop by and pose for me. Fantastic news, because I didn't get any other photos that I was too happy with.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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