Greater Scaup GRSC (Aythya marila)

Patricia Bay

North Saanich BC

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i did lighten this photo ...as it was taken lo light dusk

not the greatest but serves demonstratively instructive

Field Mark Cues ^i^

Center Male one may notice the patterning on the back is quite consistent as far as width

& patterning is more fine overall than is case for LESC

Head shape generally...keeping in mind variance in individuals , as well as postures and 'wetting' after diving etc.

GRSC head length is proportional to height

GRSC usually has and/or giving comparative appearance of an overall (larger) rounded head

GRSC - highest point of head is above or in front of the eye..impression is slopes toward back

(and at times even gives impression of a bit of a flat spot,top of head)

Gerard von Honthorst, also known as "Gherardo delle Notti"(Utrecht, November 4, 1592 - Utrecht, April 27, 1656) - The dissolute student or Student among the whores (1625)- oil on canvas 125 x 156 cm - Alte Pinakothek Munich

Gerard von Honthorst, detto anche "Gherardo delle Notti", fu uno dei cosiddetti Caravaggisti di Utrecht, successori di Caravaggio in Olanda. Ha ottenuto il soprannome a causa dei suoi dipinti drammatici e illuminati artificialmente in chiaroscuro - quadri storici ma anche "pezzi notturni" olandesi. Uno di questi è lo studente dissoluto. un esempio di una società moralmente istruttiva e felice uno dei pionieri del caravaggismo olandese.

Nel dipinto sono mostrate in totale cinque persone, che possono essere divise in due gruppi. In primo piano e disposti intorno al tavolo - seduti o in piedi - vediamo lo studente e due giovani donne. Sono tutti vestiti con abiti colorati e pomposi e indossano berretti piumati, lo studente ha una spada attaccata alla cintura. Si siede e con il braccio teso, guarda nella sua tazza per controllare se c'è qualcosa rimasto dentro. Questo motivo è indicato anche con la parola olandese "kannekijker".

Il tavolo è attrezzato a sinistra con alcuni utensili da studio, come un mappamondo e alcuni libri. Particolare attenzione è rivolta al libro aperto, illuminato dalla candela, sul cui lato sinistro è raffigurato un epigramma, a destra un'illustrazione. Ci sono anche piatti con cibo, carte da gioco, dadi e una clessidra sul tavolo.

La giovane donna rumorosa al centro indossa una camicetta, la cui manica destra le cade sulla spalla in modo tale che il suo seno è quasi scoperto. È brillantemente illuminato dall'unica fonte di luce nella foto, una candela che è posizionata al centro a sinistra sul tavolo. È interessante qui che la punta della candela è coperta dalla brocca dello studente, il che la rende una fonte di luce indiretta.

A sinistra della foto si vede un'altra giovane donna che appoggia la mano sinistra sulla spalla dello studente, con la destra indica in direzione di una vecchia con il turbante - che si vede nella parte in alto a sinistra del dipinto - una sensale che è una che porta in braccio dei neonati avvolti in panni e che sembra camminare verso la compagnia felice .

Gerard von Honthorst, also known as "Gherardo delle Notti", was one of the so-called Caravaggisti of Utrecht, Caravaggio's successors in Holland. He got the nickname because of his dramatic, artificially lit chiaroscuro paintings - historical paintings but also Dutch "night pieces." One of them is the dissolute student. an example of a morally instructive and happy society one of the pioneers of Dutch Caravaggism.

In the painting are shown a total of five people, which can be divided into two groups. In the foreground and arranged around the table - sitting or standing - we see the student and two young women. They are all dressed in colorful, pompous robes and wearing feathered caps; the student has a sword attached to his belt. He sits down and with his arm outstretched, looks into his cup to check if there is anything left in it. This motif is also referred to by the Dutch word "kannekijker".

The table is equipped on the left with some study utensils, such as a globe and some books. Particular attention is paid to the open book, lit by the candle, on the left side of which is an epigram, on the right an illustration. There are also plates with food, playing cards, dice and an hourglass on the table.

The loud young woman in the center is wearing a blouse, the right sleeve of which falls over her shoulder so that her breasts are almost exposed. She is brilliantly illuminated by the only source of light in the photo, a candle that is positioned center left on the table. It is interesting here that the tip of the candle is covered by the student's jug, making it an indirect light source.

To the left of the picture we see another young woman resting her left hand on the student's shoulder, with her right hand she points in the direction of an old woman with a turban - which is seen in the upper left part of the painting - a matchmaker who is one carrying infants wrapped in cloths and who seems to be walking towards the happy company .

Juvenile

Dark-eyed Junco DEJU (Junco hyemalis)

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one can see some "helmut " darker feathering coming in on this side of the head - as per typical local "oreganus" sub sp.

a lot of these are not great shots but still instructively useful for photo doc. study shots.

See more about this journey

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The state nature reserve of regional significance "Yuntolovsky" is located in the western part of the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg in the north-eastern part of the Lakhta-Olgino district. The territory is located in the western part of the Lakhtinskaya depression (lowland), within the southern taiga subzone, and is part of the landscape region of the Neva lowland of the Northwestern region of the Russian plain.

The boundaries of the "Yuntolovsky" reserve

The boundaries of the Yuntolovsky reserve, which have remained unchanged since its inception, include the Lakhtinsky spill, sections of the Chernaya, Kamenka, Yuntolovka, Glukharka rivers, as well as most of the Lakhtinsky swamp. Contrary to popular belief, there is no and never was a buffer zone around the reserve. On the northern and eastern sides of the reserve there are green spaces of common use - Yuntolovsky forest park and a park without a name.

The history of the formation of a specially protected natural area on the northern shore of the Neva Bay goes back to the first decades of the 20th century. In 1919, the largest naturalists of Petrograd came up with an initiative to create a "reserve of local nature" along the entire coast of the Neva Bay from Staraya Derevnya to Lisiy Nos. Scientists called the landscapes of the Lakhtinskaya lowland "beautiful and instructive pictures of the original vegetation of the local area", justifying the importance of the "immediate establishment" of the reserve. The value of the coastal areas was especially emphasized, serving as places of mass encampments of "various waterfowl and ankle birds during their spring and autumn currents." The plans were not given to come true - apparently, the project did not receive the support of the authorities. However, in the same 1919, on the banks of the Neva Bay, in the Stenbock-Fermor mansion, who owned the surrounding lands before the revolution, the Lakhtinskaya excursion station began to work. It was headed by the renowned polar explorer Professor P.V. Wittenburg. In the very first year of its work, the Museum of Nature of the northern coast of the Neva Bay was organized at the institution. The station, which operated until 1932, was a true center for research on the nature of the local area, many of which have not lost their scientific value to this day.

The plans to give the status of a protected area were implemented only in 1990.

Vegetation

Most of the reserve is occupied by sphagnum pine and birch forests, as well as transitional and lowland bogs. Less common are communities with black alder and other small-leaved species, shrub thickets. In total, about 380 species of higher vascular plants from 83 families have been identified on the territory. The marsh bush, which is included in the Red Book of Russia, deserves special mention. Here, on the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland, is the eastern limit of its distribution, in connection with which the issue of preserving the population of the species in the reserve is especially acute.

Fauna of birds

The avifauna of the Yuntolovsky reserve, despite the proximity of the city quarters, is extremely rich, diverse and even unique. More than 100 bird species nest here. About 50 more are found during migration, wintering and in summer. With varying degrees of regularity, chicks of 25 bird species included in the Red Book of St. etc.).

Birds of prey at the top of ecological pyramids are considered good indicators of environmental change. Their presence, and even more so a great species diversity, is an indicator of the normal functioning of ecological systems. In the Yuntolovsky Reserve, on a relatively small territory, 7 species of birds of prey were recorded at once for nesting: osprey, wasp eater, buzzard, goshawk, sparrowhawk, marsh harrier and hobbyist, 4 of which (osprey, wasp eater, goshawk and hobbyist) are included in the Red Book of St. Petersburg ...

Osprey breeds in the reserve. Until recently, this species was extremely rare throughout the North-West of Russia. Now its numbers are growing, but it is still considered rare. The osprey is included in the Red Data Books of St. Petersburg, the Leningrad Region and the Russian Federation. It is also protected in neighboring states - in Finland, Estonia and other countries of the Baltic region.

Previously, the Lakhtinsky Razliv played an important role in maintaining the bird fauna of the region, since, along with the shallow waters of the Gulf of Finland, it was a place for migratory camps and nesting sites for waterfowl and near-water birds. Unfortunately, as a result of large-scale logging in the adjacent territories, many bird families have disappeared in the reserve and adjacent territories

Fauna of mammals

Among the relatively large mammals in the reserve there are fox, muskrat, white hare and even roe deer. On the rivers, you can easily find huts, burrows, felled trees and other traces of the vital activity of the river beaver, which is rare in the city (it is also called European or common).

The history of the development of the Lakhtinskaya lowland

The surroundings of the Lakhtinsky Razliv were mastered by man since the time of Swedish rule: the lands along the banks of the Yuntolovka and Kamenka rivers were used as agricultural land. The drainage of the swamps, which began in the 19th century, as well as the construction of the railway, contributed to the settlement of the surrounding territories.

In the XX century, the nature of the Lakhtinskaya lowland has undergone unprecedented changes. In 1916, peat mining began on the Lakhtinsky peat bog, which is still reminiscent of the long watered quarries (checks) in the western part of the reserve. During the Great Patriotic War, Lakhta peat served as fuel for the besieged Leningrad. In 1962, soil was dredged from the bottom of the Lakhtinsky Razliv in order to reclaim new urban areas, which led to the deepening of the reservoir from 1 to 15-18 meters at the extraction sites (average depth 4.3 meters, in the central part - 8.3 m) and the destruction of part of the swamp. Peat mining and mining in Lakhta continued until the formation of the reserve in 1990.

Due to the construction of roads and the alluvial territory, the “mouth” of the Lakhtinsky flood has narrowed from 500 to 10 meters, the area of ​​shallow waters with thickets of reeds has been greatly reduced, as a result of which the number of birds stopping on migration has sharply decreased.

My Flickr friends who are more adept at monochromes than me have inspired me to revisit some of my older photos with the intent of seeing if any of them are better presented in black and white. I also have revisited the choices in cropping. Herein, a case in point? Opinions are instructive and appreciated … Cheers!

Tromsø University, Norway

Wishing all you fine Flickr folks a very happy Thanksgiving ! May today and all your tomorrows overflow with a wealth of things to be thankful for, and an abundance of fine light with which to craft your art. And thanks ever so much for sharing your creativity. I constantly find that both inspirational and instructive, and I am very thankful for that !

Slainte !

Bruce

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Met de fotoclub zijn we op stap geweest met Wim Hazenhoek naar het industriegebied Delfzijl. Alleraardigste man en het was leerzaam. Kijk ook eens bij Wim's stream

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With the photography club, we been out with Wim Hazenhoek to the industrial area of Delfzijl. Very nice guy and it was very instructive. Take a look at Wim's stream

Thanks WIm.

Ben and Clara are taking the wheel of this old Farmall tractor behind my uncle's house in New Mexico. Nothing more instructive than learning to drive a tractor.

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Not my best stack, but it was instructive - my macro lens shows some chromatic aberation here and there and I need to use a smaller step number for shots with apertures this wide. It's cute though.

We were out for a post-snowstorm winter walk in the Dundas Valley Conservation Area in Dundas, Ontario (part of the regional City of Hamilton) and, on arriving at the Sulphur Springs train station (a historic site), found the area was busy with a herd of people engaged in movie filming. A sign near the train station indicated a Christmas-themed romantic film with a working title of ‘Planes Trains & Christmas Trees’ (so, perhaps not an Academy Award contender) intended for release around Christmas 2022, was being filmed. In accordance with that theme, the station was adorned with Christmas decorations including large wreaths and garlands, some of which bore instructive labels such as ‘Rentals 1x5 Wreath W/Balls’. Fortunately, these labels were not on the wreaths decorating the East end of the station. The effect was a rather nice, classic/vintage train station in red (so, Red Rule applies) with decorations appropriate to the holiday season of interest (although it was early February). - JW

Date Taken: 2022-02-07

(c) Copyright 2021 JW Vraets

Tech Details:

Taken using a hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm VR 1:4.0 lense set to 38mm, ISO160 (Auto ISO), Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Shutter Priority Mode, f/4.0, 1/320 sec with an EV+0.33 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px wide, correct some perspective and lense curvature distortion, enable the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool and rotate it to cover and darken the bottom portion of the frame to better balance the tonality across the frame from top to bottom, use the Shadows/Highlights tool to recover the shadows particularly the eves, slightly increase Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, slightly increase Vibrance, apply a little bit of noise reduction, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the curves tool to brighten the lower portion of the curve while holding the top end, add a non-destructive dodge/burn layer and use it to slightly brighten the darker green areas in the wreaths, create new working layer from visible result, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000 px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.

Locally Occurring Tringa Comparisons

[Above left]

Greater Yellowlegs GRYE (Tringa melanoleuca)

[Below right ]

Lesser Yellowlegs LEYE (Tringa flavipes)

( head is slightly turned away)

Pendray Farm

Saanich Peninsula

British Columbia

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Not a particularly great photo but instructive to demonstrate general structural and size differences

Field Mark Cues ^i^

& Some Notes

Bill Difference between Yellowlegs::

Ok,SO...

many references cite the difference in length...with GRYE having a proportionally longer bill

TRUE ..BUT ...when one tries to apply formulas as to bill length to head size - in the field - or even at home on a computer screen -- it proves to be very difficult to apply

SO yes GRYE bill is longer AS WELL AS , has more "heft"

What i mean by this is that it (overall) stays thick (doesn't taper as fast) over its length

LEYE Bill tapers more quickly and more consistently

Why do i make this point

Because using the Bill Length to Head Size ratio there is overlap...especially in the fall between largest billed LEYE

and the immature HY GRYE-- if One is trying to sort them out by this feature alone.

Many Hatch Year fall GRYE bills haven't fully "filled out" completely yet - giving a more tapered impression - but even then ,with careful observation ,should/could be noted to be more 'hefty ' billed

Size comparisons (if available) sorts this out in a hurry but a lone birds in the fall can be challenging or a LEYE with a large ( for species) bill

The other noteworthy bill trait oft cited also has some exceptions (but is very helpful to confirm a GRYE =Upturned Bill)... but not necessarily exclude because some GRYE have straight bill

GRYE bill is often noticeably Upturned -- so if so yes -- especially with a corresponding "heftiness" --confirms GRYE

I have yet to see a LEYE with an upturned bill BUT have seen one with a noticeable Downturn(which could easily cause a confusion of ID with SOSA traits tendency)

SO Yes

for the vast majority LEYE have a Straight Bill

but beware many subadult and a few fully adult GRYE do as well [such as the individual GRYE shown in this pix]

Some General TRINGA Size X Ref.s

(including a couple others in the family)

Willet WILL = Blue Winged Teal Size = Duckish Size = Franklin's Gull size

GRYE = Bigger Than Killdeer

LEYE = Killdeer (body) or Dowitcher Sized

but longer legged

Solitary Sandpiper SOSA (Tringa solitaria) = smaller than Killdeer

bigger than peep -

Approx. Spotted Sandpiper SOSA sized - but longer legged

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as cited in adjacent post

Yeah ,have been missing some 'quality " shorebirding sessions this past year....

POSTED on ....Jan 26th 2021

i always enjoy every season , and quite like winter birding

but

Yup

i am missing shorebirding in general

2020 wasn't a great year for that for me for a few reasons

Work and Personal matters had me overall too busy

TI̸X̱EN 'the Spit" ( Tsawout First Nation ) remained in a Residents Only Lockdown due to COVIS 19

And Reservoir levels were very high in local Reservoirs - so much so that many (such as Pendray Farm) did not have any real shorebird habitat all year

I will have to try to catch some of our local wintering shorebird action in Oak Bay before too long

;)

Scratching.

Lámha coirp bickering paradoxes struchtúir na siansach léirithe léirithe ag díbhe difríochtaí peacaí láidre cogaíochta spioradálta,

causes complots infiltrer comiques délires châtiment pressions philosophiques tyrans dirigeants métaphores instructives chevaux indisciplinés mêlées énergies maléfiques,

apetyty korupcja delegacje zakłopotanie przebiegłe hasła rozbiórki zasady tchórze teatry czarodzieje złamane obietnice armii,

amheuon treiddgar rhesymau lluosogrwydd wedi diflannu enwau meddyliau syfrdanu uchelgais newynog uwch gwreichion cynulliad syrthni,

opere forzate battaglie lontane voce sonora agitata criminale rapidità vendicatori richieste mantello da brigante risentimento guai intenti spietati,

狂気の告発が続く炎を煽る固い唇の不満を唱える法則の近く外国のテントは悪徳がひどい苦しみに苦しんでいる異議を唱えるトリックの戦略を傷つけたことを意味します異議を唱えるトリックの戦略が傷つ引っかき傷.

Steve.D.Hammond.

Une CRÉATION de TIZOIZO.

Du 15 au 17 février 2013,à la Place Bonaventure de Montréal (Qc), aura lieu Le SALON du VÉLO de Montréal..TIZOIZO y présentera son TIVELO au Kiosque # E -12...section : CYCLOTOURISME et VOYAGES...

Vous y êtes cordialement invités..

TIVELO...c'est également un BLOG que TIZOIZO alimente de son dynamisme, de sa créativité et de ses propos souvent bien québécois...

Une "tite" visite serait bien appréciée et instructive...Un "tit" commentaire serait le bienvenu...Et pourquoi ne pas adopter ce blog?

Lien vers le blog de Tizoizo

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From 15 to 17 February 2013, at Place Bonaventure in Montreal (Qc), will be held Le SALON du VÉLO de Montréal .. TIZOIZO will present her TIVELO at Booth # E -12 ...Section : CYCLOTOURISME et VOYAGES

You are cordially invited ..

TIVELO ... it is also a BLOG that TIZOIZO feeds with her dynamism, her creativity and her "propos souvent bien québecois"...

A "tite" visit would be much appreciated and informative ... A "tit" comment would be welcome ...To adopt this blog?...Why not...?

Link to the blog of Tizoizo

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Merci à mon ami Diegojack pour sa précieuse collaboration!

Thanks to my friend,Diegojack, for his more than valuable collaboration!

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Vous lire est un plaisir.Merci de vos commentaires,votre visite,vos invitations et favoris.

To read your comments is a pleasure.Thank you for your visit,comments,invitations and faves

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Bienvenue à la Roulette Rouge one of four new public rooms for the nobles of Magritte in the new pavilion.

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Gaming in the 18th century was a way of advertising a healthy surplus of disposable income. Among aristocrats, gaming was an indication of status, rank, wealth and class. It was also a family affair. The upper echelons of French society considered games a highly instructive learning tool.

Games in the 18th century were played on all levels of society, for all different reasons and age groups.

Playing with a boxed set of gaming pieces would be an elegant way to lose one’s wig. The porcelain gaming chips (inscribed with the name of the coin known as “Louis,” after the king) came in different denominations for laying down bets.

As elite Magrittians tossed in their chips, they might have marveled at the smooth porcelain, a versatile new material in Europe dubbed “white gold.”

See you there

Love Benoit & Florens

Modèle: Jade Bianca

Costume: Arisa Fukumoto

One of the three pictures I brought this evening to my photography class for my project on estrangement. It was tonight our last class and each student had to present a project. Very interesting altogether; it was great to see again how people can be creative. The class finally was lots of fun and quite instructive. I have registered already for two others, namely photoshop 1 and 2. We are starting in two weeks and I am looking very much forward to it.

one of my favorite, up-to-now unscanned photographs. sometimes it is instructive to lose oneself in a place where one will never go, at a time when one will never be.

Model generated in Deep Dream Generator - I named her Meng Na (which literally means Dream Girl)

The original AI image was in colour and fairly high-key and flat looking. I Applied a whole slew of HDR tone-mapping filters in Nik Collection and Photomatix, then added some blurring, smuding, dodging, burning, lighting filters, contrast and tonal adjustments in PS and Lr. After that I applied Topaz DeNoise (severe noise mode) to smooth out some pixelation resulting from the small size of the original file, which worked out pretty well.

While the original AI model was fairly realistic overall, it had some strange anatomical anomalies, which required some very tricky reconstructive surgery to her bone structure with the cloning tool in PS, but it was amazing to see the muscle and bones surface out of what was a very flat and high-key initial image with the addition of HDR effects. The AI model's tummy even has some very realistic skin blemishes.

I spent several hours working on this and ended up deleting four previous iterations, but I found it very instructive and very challenging. An excellent way to practise portraiture post-processing for sure.

She's a very attractive model, but the AI generated her with slightly crossed eyes, although I suppose you could take it as a realistic human-like imperfection. Seems a bit odd to me that a lot of the AI-generated portraits also often have misshapen irises and pupils.

I know that people don't seem to like gulls so I'm not expecting much attention on this. But I think this is a really instructive photograph of a difficult-to-identify species. That is a one-year old Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans) on the left and a similarly aged Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) on the right. Caspian Gull used to be considered a race of Herring Gull but when you look at the structure of these two they are very different. Caspian Gull looks small-headed and almost giraffe-necked with a slender bill. It also has longer wings and legs than Herring Gull. I photographed this on the River Calder in West Yorkshire this morning.

Caspian gulls breeds around the Black and Caspian Seas, extending eastwards across Central Asia to north-west China. In Europe, it has been spreading north and west and now breeds in Poland and eastern Germany, where they come into contact with Herring Gulls and sometimes interbreed. Some Caspian Gulls migrate south as far as the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, while others disperse into Western Europe. Small numbers are now seen regularly in Britain. Its scientific name Larus cachinnans translates as "laughing gull" from the call: www.xeno-canto.org/580768 . Confusingly there is another bird called Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla).

Seen while exploring the farming landscape of the Gila River Valley east of Yuma on the final day of a 1600-mile drive from Renton to Maricopa. It was a pleasant and instructive diversion from Interstate 8.

This is three miles (4.8 km) west of Wellton, Arizona. I was driving eastward on Old US 80 and saw this dilapidated house. I stopped, lowered my window, and took this picture. Onward I drove.

🎵Monet, Monet, MOEnet… MONET!🎵

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)

Title: The Houses of Parliament, Sunset (1903)

Material: oil on canvas

Venue: National Gallery of Art, D.C.

The colors within this painting are played within blocks where the separate images that make the whole are made entirely by complimentary color hues. And then there is the movement, the energy, in the painting. Can a landscape photographer do something similar? Not entirely but the image is instructive, particularly with its use of complementary colors.

Cackling Goose CACG* (Branta hutchinsii)

predominantly subspecies Minima

Maber Flats

Central Saanich BC

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Backlit but enjoyably instructive to see short necked proportions and wing characteristics

View On Black

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First radiant Sunna shews his beamy Head,

Mona to Him, and scepter'd Tiw succeed;

Tiw, ancient Monarch of remotest Fame,

Who led from Babel's Tow'rs the German Name.

And warlike Woden, fam'd for martial Deeds,

From whom great Brunswick's noble Line proceeds.

Dread Thuner see! on his Imperial Seat,

With awful Magesty, and kingly State

Reclin'd! at his Command black Thunders roll,

And Storms and fiery Tempests shake the Pole.

With various Emblem next fair Friga charms,

Array'‘d in female Stole and manly Arms.

Expressive Image of that Double Soul,

Prolifick Spirit that informs the Whole;

Whose Genial Power throughout exerts its Sway,

And Earth, and Sea, and Air, its Laws obey.

Last of the Circle hoary Seatern stands;

Instructive Emblems fill his mystick Hands.

In this a Wheel's revolving Orb declares

The never-ending Round of rolling Years,

That holds a Vessel fill'd with fading Flowers

And Fruits collected by the ripening Hours.

Be warn'd from hence, ye Fair Ones! to improve

The transitory Minutes made for Love,

E'er yet th' inexorable Hand of Time

Robs of its bloomy Sweets your lovely Prime.

..............photos of my recent adventures with Miss Penny Diamond! She's too pretty and sexy to compete with. I went out again today as I've learned to take the opportunities when they come or even to make them happen. I'm confident there will be several effective vaccines for COVID 19 in 2021 but I believe the world will be a harsher and more intolerant place post-pandemic. History rather than science is always more instructive.

The word “Atoll” comes from Dhivehi (an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Maldives) and is pronounced locally as “atholhu” (Dhivehi script: އަތޮޅު, is a ring-shaped ribbon reef enclosing a lagoon.

The distribution of atolls around the globe is instructive: most of the world's atolls are in the Pacific Ocean (with concentrations in the Tuamotu Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Coral Sea Islands, and the island groups of Kiribati, Tuvalu and Tokelau) and Indian Ocean (the Atolls of the Maldives, the Laccadive Islands, the Chagos Archipelago and the Outer Islands of the Seychelles). The Atlantic Ocean has no large groups of atolls, other than eight atolls east of Nicaragua that belong to the Colombian department of San Andres and Providencia in the Caribbean Sea.

Source: www.dictionary30.com/meaning/Atoll

OK for another attempt at GeoArt? This is a shot of patterns looking down at a shallow playa with a soggy shoreline. I've placed it as an art poster in a mockup of a living room. I hope it is as artistically eye-catching as it is geologically instructive.

I removed haze and added contrast to bring out the natural colors caused by algae and bacteria.

The instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world

Edinburgh :Edmonston & Douglas, 87 Princes Street,1858.

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therefore this extreme treatment of this otherwise boring image

Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1191, is the national cathedral of the Church of Ireland. Christ Church Cathedral, also a Church of Ireland cathedral in Dublin, is designated as the local cathedral of the Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough. In 1192, John Comyn, first Anglo-Norman archbishop of Dublin, elevated one of the four Dublin Celtic parish churches, this one dedicated to Saint Patrick, beside a holy well of the same name and on an island between two branches of the River Poddle, to the status of a collegiate church, i.e., a church with a body of clergy devoted to both worship and learning. The new collegiate church fell outside the city boundaries, and this move created two new civic territories, one under the archbishop's temporal jurisdiction. The church was dedicated to "God, our Blessed Lady Mary and St Patrick" on 17 March 1191.

Comyn's charter of 1191 or 1192, which allowed for a chapter of thirteen canons, of which three held special dignities (as chancellor, precentor and treasurer), was confirmed by a papal bull (of Pope Celestine III) within a year. The thirteen prebendaries attached to the church were provided with archepiscopal lands.

Over time, a whole complex of buildings arose in the vicinity of the cathedral, including the Palace of the St Sepulchre (seat of the archbishop), and legal jurisdiction was divided between a Liberty controlled by the dean, around the cathedral, and a larger one belonging to the archbishop, adjacent.

While it is not clear when precisely the church was further raised to the status of a cathedral, a unique move in a city with an existing cathedral, it was probably after 1192, and Comyn's successor as Archbishop, Henry de Loundres, was elected in 1212 by the chapters of both Christ Church and St Patrick's, this election being recognised by Pope Innocent III. See below for more on the question of status. Henry granted a number of further charters to the cathedral and chapter between 1218 and 1220, and one of these in 1220 created the office of dean to head the cathedral, the right of an election being allocated solely to the canons of the Chapter.

The basis of the present building, as noted, the largest church in Ireland, was built between 1191 and 1270, though little now remains of the earliest work beyond the baptistry. Much of the work was overseen by the previously mentioned Henry of London, a friend of the King of England and signatory of the Magna Carta, who was also involved in the construction of Dublin's city walls, and Dublin Castle.

An order from King Henry III in 1225 allowed the collection of donations from across the island for reconstruction for a period of four years, and the work, in the Early English Gothic style, lasted at least until rededication in 1254. The Lady Chapel was added around 1270.

In 1300, Archbishop Ferings of Dublin arranged an agreement between the two cathedrals, the Pacis Compositio, which acknowledged both as cathedrals and made some provision to accommodate their shared status. For more, see Status below.

In 1311 the Medieval University of Dublin was founded here with William de Rodyard, Dean of St Patrick's, as its first Chancellor, and the Canons as its members. It never flourished, and was suppressed at the Reformation.

From the mid-14th century, and for over 500 years, the north transept of the building was used as the parish church of St Nicholas Without (i.e. the part of the Parish of St Nicholas outside the city proper).

The tower (Minot's Tower) and west nave were rebuilt between 1362 and 1370, following a fire. The name commemorates Thomas Minot, Archbishop of Dublin 1363–75, who oversaw the rebuilding.

From the very earliest years, there were problems with seepage of water, with a number of floods, especially in the later years of the 18th century, caused by the surrounding branches of the River Poddle – even in the 20th century, it is reported that the water table was within 2.3 metres (7.5 feet) of the floor. This situation ensured there would never be a crypt or basement area. After the English Reformation (an uneven process between 1536 and 1564 but at St Patrick's effective from about 1537), St Patrick's became an Anglican (Church of Ireland) church. In the 1530s some images within the cathedral were defaced by soldiers under Thomas Cromwell,[clarification needed] and neglect led to the collapse of the nave in 1544. The conventionally flexible style of the Archbishop of Dublin Hugh Curwen is instructive; he was a follower firstly of Henry's non-reformed church in the 1530s, then of Edward VI's full-blown Protestantism c. 1550, then accepting his appointment as archbishop during Queen Mary's reversion of the church to Roman Catholicism in 1555, and continued to serve as the archbishop, using the Anglican rite from 1559, under Queen Elizabeth until 1567.

Under King Edward VI, St Patrick's Cathedral was formally suppressed and the building demoted back to the status of a parish church. On 25 April 1547, a pension of 200 marks sterling was assigned to "Sir Edward Basnet", the dean, followed, some months later, by pensions of £60 each to Chancellor Alien and Precentor Humphrey, and £40 to Archdeacon Power. The silver, jewels, and ornaments were transferred to the dean and chapter of Christ Church. The King designated part of the building for use as a courthouse, the cathedral grammar school was established in the then vicar's hall and the deanery given to the archbishop, following the transfer of the Archbishop's Palace to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. In 1549, it was further ordered that the walls be repainted and inscribed with passages from the scriptures.

In 1555 a charter of the joint monarchs Philip and Mary restored the cathedral's privileges and initiated restoration and a late document of Queen Mary's reign, a deed dated 27 April 1558, comprises a release or receipt by Thomas Leverous, the new dean, and the chapter of St Patrick's, of the "goods, chattels, musical instruments, etc.", belonging to the cathedral, and which had been in the possession of the dean and chapter of Christ Church. It was during this reign that the patronal festival of the Blessed Virgin Mary was last celebrated (in 1558).

Following the ejection of the Catholic chapter of canons in 1559, the Catholic community continued in the 1560s–1570s at least to go on nominating canons and the principal dignitaries to St Patrick's.

In 1560, one of Dublin's first public clocks was erected in "St Patrick's Steeple".By the early 17th century, the Lady Chapel was said to have been in ruins, and the arch at the east end of the choir was closed off by a lath and plaster partition wall. There was also routine flooding and a series of galleries was added to accommodate large congregations. In 1620 the English-born judge Luke Gernon referred to the cathedral's poor state of repair.

During the stay of Oliver Cromwell in Dublin, during his conquest of Ireland the Commonwealth's Lord Protector stabled his horses in the nave of the cathedral. This was intended to demonstrate Cromwell's disrespect for the Anglican religion, which he associated with Roman Catholicism and political Royalism.

After the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, repairs to the building were begun.

In 1666, the cathedral chapter offered the Lady Chapel for the use of French-speaking Huguenots who had fled to Ireland, and after some repair and preparation works, it became known as L'Eglise Française de St Patrick. A lease was signed on 23 December 1665 and was renewed from time to time until the special services ceased in 1816, by which time the Huguenots had been fully assimilated into the city population.

In 1668 the roof, in danger of collapsing, was taken down, a new roof being completed by 1671. Buttresses were erected and the west window was replaced with a perpendicular window. Then, in the 1680s, the choir was reformed. In 1688–90, during the Williamite War in Ireland, James II and his fellow Catholics briefly repossessed St Patrick's. James attended Mass services there with his Jacobite supporters for a time.[clarification needed] However, the victory of the Protestant Williamites in this war meant that the cathedral was restored to Anglican ownership in 1690 when James abandoned Dublin after his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne.

Throughout its long history, the cathedral has contributed much to Irish life, and one key aspect of this relates to the writer and satirist Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, who was Dean of the cathedral from 1713 to 1745. Many of his famous sermons and "Irish tracts" (such as the Drapier's Letters) were given during his stay as Dean.

His grave and epitaph can be seen in the cathedral, along with those of his friend Stella. Swift took a great interest in the building, its services and music and in what would now be called social welfare, funding an almshouse for poor women and Saint Patrick's Hospital.

The Choir School, which had been founded in 1432, supplied many of its members to take part in the very first performance of Handel's Messiah in 1742.

In 1749, the cathedral spire was added by George Semple; it remains one of Dublin's landmarks.

In 1792, divine service was temporarily suspended due to the poor condition of the south wall, then 60 centimetres (2 feet) out of perpendicular, and of parts of the roof.

Knights of St Patrick. From 1783 until 1871 the cathedral served as the Chapel of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, members of which were the Knights of St Patrick. With the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1871, the installation ceremony moved to St Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle. The heraldic banners of the knights at the time of the change still hang over the choir stalls to this day.

Paris-Malta obedience of the Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910). The cathedral contains the so-called Dunsany[citation needed] Chapel which is the spiritual home of the order in Ireland. The decoration of the chapel was provided for by Randall Plunkett, 19th Lord Dunsany, who established the order in Ireland in 1962. The cathedral is used for its investiture ceremonies and the dean of the cathedral is an Ecclesiastical Commander of the order.

By 1805, the north transept was in ruins and the south transept was in a poor condition; urgent work was carried out to the nave roof, held up by scaffolding.

In 1846, the post of Dean of Saint Patrick's was united with that of Dean of Christ Church, a situation which lasted in law until 1872.

An attempt at major restoration began under the direction of Dean Pakenham (Dean, 1843–1864), limited by poor economic circumstances. The Lady Chapel was restored, the floor (then raised several metres) reduced to its original level and other urgent matters were at least partly addressed.

In the mid-19th century, a Celtic cross was found buried near the cathedral. This has been preserved and it is thought it may have marked the site of the former holy well.

The major reconstruction, paid for by Benjamin Guinness, in 1860–65, and inspired by the fear that the cathedral was in imminent danger of collapse, means that much of the current building and decoration dates from the Victorian era; medieval chantries were removed among other actions, and few records of the work survive today.

Though the rebuilding ensured the survival of the cathedral, the failure to preserve records of the scale of the rebuild means that little is known as to how much of the current building is genuinely mediæval and how much is Victorian pastiche. Sir Benjamin's statue by JH Foley is outside the south door. His son Arthur (also a brewer) came in for humorous but gentle criticism when he donated a stained glass window of 'Rebecca at the well'; its motto read: 'I was thirsty and ye gave me drink'. In 1901 his son Edward created the adjacent "St Patrick's Park" from an area of decrepit housing, and donated a new set of bells to the cathedral.

The other great change for the cathedral occurred in 1871 when, following the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland, the newly independent church at its general synod finally resolved the "two cathedral" issue, making Christ Church the sole and undisputed cathedral of the Dublin diocese and St Patrick's the national cathedral.

The cathedral plays host to a number of public national ceremonies. Ireland's Remembrance Day ceremonies, hosted by the Royal British Legion and attended by the President of Ireland, take place there every November. Its carol service (the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols), celebrated twice in December, including every 24 December, is a colourful feature of Dublin life.

On Saturdays in autumn, the cathedral hosts the graduation ceremonies of Technological University Dublin.

The funerals of two Irish presidents, Douglas Hyde and Erskine Childers, took place there in 1949 and 1974 respectively. At President Hyde's funeral, the whole of the Irish government and opposition contingent, but for Childers and Noel Browne, stayed in the foyer of the church. This was because, at the time of the funeral, the Holy See forbade Roman Catholics from entering the churches of other Christian traditions.[clarification needed] Because President Childers died in office, his state funeral was a major state occasion. The attendance included foreign dignitaries King Baudouin of Belgium, Vice-President of the United States Spiro T. Agnew (representing President Richard Nixon), Earl Mountbatten of Burma (representing Queen Elizabeth II), British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and former British prime minister Edward Heath.

In 2006, the cathedral's national prominence was used by a group of 18 Afghan migrants seeking asylum, who occupied it for several days before being persuaded to leave without trouble.

a third shot of the bridge done during my visit last summer, this time as a vandyke print

print done on the same funny and instructive afternoon with vernon trent as the one before.

503cw with cf 80mm planar + nd 3.0,

shot on fuji acros 100, printet with moersch vandyke emulsion on canson paper

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Linse: Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f1.4 (1970)

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Kjemi: Xtol (stock / 7 min. @ 20°C)

Wikipedia: Nuseirat refugee camp massacre (8 June 2024) - 274+ Palestinian civilians killed, 698+ Palestinian civilians injured

Wikipedia: Al-Sardi school attack (6 June 2024) - 33+ Palestinian civilians killed (including 9 children and 3 women), 70+ Palestinian civilians injured

The following statement on the Middle East was dated 31st January, 1970, and was read on 3rd February, the day after Bertrand Russell’s death, to an International Conference of Parliamentarians meeting in Cairo:

The latest phase of the undeclared war in the Middle East is based upon a profound miscalculation. The bombing raids deep into Egyptian territory will not persuade the civilian population to surrender, but will stiffen their resolve to resist. This is the lesson of all aerial bombardment.

The Vietnamese who have endured years of American heavy bombing have responded not by capitulation but by shooting down more enemy aircraft. In 1940 my own fellow countrymen resisted Hitler’s bombing raids with unprecedented unity and determination. For this reason, the present Israeli attacks will fail in their essential purpose, but at the same time they must be condemned vigorously throughout the world.

The development of the crisis in the Middle East is both dangerous and instructive. For over 20 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has suggested “negotiations”. This is the traditional role of the imperial power, because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence. Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiation from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression. The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annexe foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate.

The refugees who surround Palestine in their hundreds of thousands were described recently by the Washington journalist I.F. Stone as “the moral millstone around the neck of world Jewry.” Many of the refugees are now well into the third decade of their precarious existence in temporary settlements. The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their number have increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East.

We are frequently told that we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. I see in this suggestion no reason to perpetuate any suffering. What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy. Not only does Israel condemn a vast number of refugees to misery; not only are many Arabs under occupation condemned to military rule; but also Israel condemns the Arab nations only recently emerging from colonial status, to continued impoverishment as military demands take precedence over national development.

All who want to see an end to bloodshed in the Middle East must ensure that any settlement does not contain the seeds of future conflict. Justice requires that the first step towards a settlement must be an Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied in June, 1967. A new world campaign is needed to help bring justice to the long–suffering people of the Middle East.

- Taken from Connexions.org: Bertrand Russell's Last Message (1970)

Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse at Plymouth Hoe.

April 04, 1982

Camera: Contax 139 + Carl Zeiss 28mm f2.8 Distagon lens

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Smeaton’s Lighthouse which was re-erected on Plymouth Hoe was the third lighthouse to be built on the Eddystone Rock marked a major step forward in lighthouse design.

Following the destruction of Rudyard's Eddystone Light, Robert Weston sought advice on rebuilding the lighthouse from the Earl of Macclesfield, then President of the Royal Society.

He recommended mathematical instrument maker and aspiring civil engineer, John Smeaton, who was introduced to Weston in February 1756. In May, following a series of visits to the rock, Smeaton proposed that the new lighthouse should be built of stone and modelled on the shape of an oak tree. He appointed Josias Jessop to serve as his general assistant, and established a shore base for the construction works at Millbay.

Work began on the reef in August 1756, with the gradual cutting away of recesses in the rock which were designed to dovetail in due course with the foundations of the tower. During the winter, the workers stayed ashore and were employed in dressing the stone for the lighthouse; work then resumed on the rock the following June, with the laying of the first courses of stone.

The foundations and outside structure were built of local Cornish granite, while lighter Portland limestone masonry was used on the inside. As part of the construction process, Smeaton pioneered 'hydraulic lime', a concrete that cured under water, and developed a technique of securing the blocks using dovetail joints and marble dowels. Work continued over the course of the following two years, and the light was first lit on 16 October 1759.

Smeaton's lighthouse was 59 feet (18 m) high and had a diameter at the base of 26 feet (8 m) and at the top of 17 feet (5 m). It was lit by a chandelier of 24 large tallow candles.

In 1807 the 100-year lease on the lighthouse expired, whereupon ownership and management devolved to Trinity House.

From 1858 the tower's exterior was painted with broad red and white horizontal bands, so as to render it 'more distinctly visible during the day time'. In 1872 a 5 cwt fog bell was provided for the lighthouse; it was sounded 'five times in quick succession every half minute' in foggy weather. That same year an improved lamp was installed, which more than doubled the intensity of the light.

In 1877 it was resolved to build a replacement lighthouse, following reports that erosion to the rocks under Smeaton's tower was causing it to shake from side to side whenever large waves hit.

During construction of the new lighthouse, the Town Council of Plymouth petitioned for Smeaton's tower to be dismantled and rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe, in lieu of a Trinity House daymark which stood there.

Trinity House consented to the removal and delivery of the lantern and the upper four rooms of the tower, the cost of labour to be borne by Plymouth Council.

While the new tower was being built the old lighthouse remained operational, up until 3 February 1882 (after which a temporary fixed light was shown from the top of the new tower). When the latter was complete, Smeaton's lighthouse was decommissioned and the crane which had been used to build the new lighthouse was transferred to the task of dismantling the old. William Tregarthen Douglass supervised the operation.

The upper part of Smeaton's lighthouse was subsequently rebuilt, as planned, on top of a replica granite frustum on Plymouth Hoe: preserved 'as a monument to Smeaton's genius, and in commemoration of one of the most successful, useful and instructive works ever accomplished in civil engineering'. The rebuilding was funded by public subscription. It remains in place today and, as 'Smeaton's Tower', is open to the public as a tourist attraction.

The original frustum or base of the tower also survives, standing where it was built on the Eddystone rocks, 120 feet (37 m) from the current lighthouse. Having dismantled the upper part of the structure, Douglass infilled the old entrance way and stairwell within the frustum and fixed an iron mast to the top of the stub tower. He expressed the hope that 'the rock below will for ages endure to support this portion of Smeaton's lighthouse, which, in its thus diminished form, is still rendering important service to the mariner, in giving a distinctive character to the Eddystone by day'.

(Notes from Wikipedia)

Helmshore, Lancashire. Pen, ink, watercolour 19x24cm.

In contrast to the often grey North of England, I'll be tutoring happy, instructive painting and drawing workshops-with an emphasis on keeping a sketchbook- in south west France. Dates are the weeks commencing 1st and 8th June.

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A typical "March Fracture" caused by excessive stress from too much running.

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In the trenches below a block being separated from the bedrock in the granite quarries of Aswan. The stone cracked in several areas, and the project abandoned before it was fully separated from the bedrock. The quarry workers used rounded cobbles – like the one instructively placed in the foreground – as their primary tool for bashing the granite.

Aswan: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

Female

Wood Duck WODU (Aix sponsa)

King’s Pond

Cedar Hill Golf Course

Saanich BC

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Field Mark Cues ^i^

Photo Doc.

Comparison WODU & MADU

Although not the greatest shots they are instructive

Back View

Similar white edging on folded wing feathers however ,WODU has feathers that are more iridescent

BEST seen in LARGE size.

Surviving Picasso:

The music - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw_uVeH9EjI

The movie - www.imdb.com/title/tt0117791/

His women: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcID_3369ZI

"Women are machines for suffering, Picasso told his mistress Françoise Gilot in 1943. Indeed, as they embarked on their nine-year affair, the 61-year-old artist warned the 21-year-old student: For me there are only two kinds of women, goddesses and doormats.

From Rembrandt and Goya to Bonnard and Stanley Spencer, male artists have drawn obsessively and immensely productively on the faces and bodies of their wives and lovers. But no one used and abused his women quite like the greatest artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso.

Picasso eviscerates his women in the service of his art. Women pulled and gouged into tortured shapes, women cut in bits and reconfigured on the canvas. Yet harrowing as these images are, they are nothing beside the real life dramas that led to their creation.

Of the seven most important women in Picasso's life, two killed themselves and two went mad. Another died of natural causes only four years into their relationship. Yet while Picasso had affairs with dozens, perhaps hundreds of women, and was true to none of them – except possibly the last – each of these seven women shines out as a crucial catalyst in his development as an artist. Each stands for a different period in his career, representing a complementary or opposing ideal that inspired the evolution of a new visual language. Just as they became obsessively involved with him, so he was dependent on them.

Loyal, generous and affectionate when it suited him, Picasso could be astoundingly brutal, to friends, lovers, even complete strangers. Yet he felt real, often anguished passion for each of these women – a passion he explored in tens of thousands of paintings, drawings and prints, in which he attempted to capture not just the way these women looked, but the totality of his feelings towards them.

Lest it should be thought that Picasso had things entirely his own way, the case of Françoise Gilot is instructive. This young aspiring artist – just 21 when they met – seems to have handled Picasso's cruelties and perversities with amazing deftness, and was the only woman to leave him entirely voluntarily, with her dignity more or less intact."

Skin and outfit (Avatar Sheherazade): Meilo Minotaur

Pose: Mimesis Monday

Installation created by Meilo Minotaur

Second Life: Sheherazade: if you want to survive, tell a story (at The Companion)

...and in another light

Our place around the decision makers table is critical for the proper representation of women at work. Many times the light is in us and not in a specific position or workplace. A structured career path is important for smart management in the new world of work. A world of uncertainty and constant renewal that requires innovation.

The hands of women hold the power to change reality, reaching out to every woman wherever she is, we need to choose the right path for us and make sure to embark on this journey strong and determined.

Equality and adequate representation in the work world is possible, rewarding, and is worth fighting for. This book is an invitation to a journey through authentic life stories of 111 women in the Israeli society who have not given up, fell and rose up over and over again. They made their voices heard, progressed and made a personal breakthrough.

The writing in the book is about real life and career. A Women and Career Book -A Leading Influential Presence A fascinating, instructive and transformative journey which transforms business discourse about leadership.

Book Publishing – Kinneret Zmora-Dvir Publisher Ltd.

More about the book and me.

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The hands of women, (the power of organizations and infancy education) hold the power to change reality, reaching out to every woman wherever she is, we need to choose the right path for us and make sure to embark on this journey strong and determined.

Equality and adequate representation in the work world is possible, rewarding, and is worth fighting for. This book is an invitation to a journey through (via) authentic life stories of 111 women in the Israeli society who have not given up, fell and rose up over and over again. They made their voices heard, progressed and made a personal breakthrough.

The writing in the book is about real life and career. A Women and Career Book -A Leading Influential Presence - A fascinating, instructive and transformative journey which transforms business discourse about leadership.

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At the Bridal Veil Bluffs there are two overlook/viewpoints, I started at the one that is slightly further northeast of the other, but when the moon was aligned directly over Vista House (left hand photo above) - I took a chance and walked quickly to the other overlook/viewpoint from where, as the moon descended it lined up nicely behind Vista House (right hand photo). Even though the sky was the cloudless, there was quite bit of haze (possibly smoke from a fire further east in the Columbia Gorge) which washed out the moon a great deal. And because the moon was nearly (98%) full, and the sun was almost directly (172º) behind the camera resulting in a very flat light, and rendering the polarizer useless against the haze (so it was not used for these photos). In post, I increased the Dehaze to 35 and the Blacks to -25 to increase the contrast / reduce the effect of the haze. It’s interesting and instructive to compare the photos above with one taken in February of 2023, when the sun was more to the side, see first comment below.

The Photographer's Ephemeris setup for the right hand photo above. Photos taken from the Bridal Veil Bluffs (3miles away from Vista House, see second comment below), Columbia River Gorge, Oregon OM26208,218

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Met de fotoclub zijn we op stap geweest met Wim Hazenhoek naar het industriegebied Delfzijl. Alleraardigste man en het was leerzaam. Kijk ook eens bij Wim's stream

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With the photography club, we been out with Wim Hazenhoek to the industrial area of Delfzijl. Very nice guy and it was very instructive. Take a look at Wim's stream

Thanks WIm.

The instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world

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As I've stopped doing "photo shoots" for the most part, now it's pictures of friends, family, people I encounter.

It's close to where I was at the beginning of Flickr, taking photos when someone photo-worthy crossed my path. I take photos less frequently, but I'm far more satisfied with the experiences.

Maybe it's that I only want to take photos that have a story attached to 'em, these days.

Few months ago my friend Lindi contacted me, wanted help with a photo project she was doing, interviewing friends, taking pictures that would accompany the interview. She felt a bit insecure about the photography aspect, wanted me there to share from my DEEP WELL OF WISDOM.

We did it all at my place, photographed Nicole here in a chair by a window, took pictures while she told us a rather intimate story from her past. So intimate, Lindi forgot to take pictures, it was up to me, compelled by the moment and the situation, to get right up in Nicole's face and start snapping away, to remind Lindi to do the same.

Other than that grimly instructive moment, I barely took any pictures, that wasn't my role, but I had to get a few, I mean...I'm still me!

This was the last one, as Nicole was leaving, because of course, it's always the last one.

Female

Mandarin duck MADU (Aix galericulata)

Beacon Hill Park

near "Warren Island"

Goodacre Lake

Victoria BC

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Comparison WODU & MADU

Although not the greatest shots they are instructive

Side View on Water

This view (View 2) perhaps, of the series, best makes apparent these 2 differing features between these female duck

1. WODU has a more substantial crest feature ,noticeably thicker at the back of head

2. MADU has a noticible striping pattern of feathering of lower cheeks

Other features noted below::

Similar white around eyes however MADU has less

,WODU head has feathers that may show iridescence(overall substantially more apparently)

MADU has larger 'spots' on side

This exercise is not meant to be an exhaustive/absolute ....and some review of photos online seem to show that "our" MADU female is still transitioning her plumage somewhat

Keep in mind :: Each individual duck species varies within stages of season moulting,and here we have different individual WODU females & only one WODU individual.

Having said all that -- it is still a beneficial exercise

:)

AS one clicks (twice) to enlarge view it would seem to show that the

Orbital Ring (fleshy area around the eye) is grey on this bird

That seems to be supported in a quick review of other pix online As opposed to (when seen well) WODU females have an obvious Orange Orbital Ring