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4 day Urbex Roadtrip from Porto to Lisbon and a few days to wander around Lisbon at the end.
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Blackcap - Sylvia Atrcapilla (M)
The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) usually known simply as the blackcap, is a common and widespread typical warbler. It has mainly olive-grey upperparts and pale grey underparts, and differences between the five subspecies are small. Both sexes have a neat coloured cap to the head, black in the male and reddish-brown in the female. The male's typical song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, but a simpler song is given in some isolated areas, such as valleys in the Alps. The blackcap's closest relative is the garden warbler, which looks quite different but has a similar song.
The blackcap feeds mainly on insects during the breeding season, then switches to fruit in late summer, the change being triggered by an internal biological rhythm. When migrants arrive on their territories they initially take berries, pollen and nectar if there are insufficient insects available, then soon switch to their preferred diet. They mainly pick prey off foliage and twigs, but may occasionally hover, flycatch or feed on the ground. Blackcaps eat a wide range of invertebrate prey, although aphids are particularly important early in the season, and flies, beetles and caterpillars are also taken in large numbers. Small snails are swallowed whole, since the shell is a source of calcium for the bird's eggs. Chicks are mainly fed soft-bodied insects, fruit only being provided if invertebrates are scarce.
In July, the diet switches increasingly to fruit. The protein needed for egg-laying and for the chicks to grow is replaced by fruit sugar which helps the birds to fatten for migration. Aphids are still taken while they are available, since they often contain sugars from the plant sap on which they feed. Blackcaps eat a wide range of small fruit, and squeeze out any seeds on a branch before consuming the pulp. This technique makes them an important propagator of mistletoe. The mistle thrush, which also favours that plant, is less beneficial since it tends to crush the seeds. Although any suitable fruit may be eaten, some have seasonal or local importance; elder makes up a large proportion of the diet of northern birds preparing for migration, and energy-rich olives and lentisc are favoured by blackcaps wintering in the Mediterranean.
The German birds wintering in British gardens rely on provided food, and the major items are bread and fat, each making up around 20% of the diet; one bird survived the whole winter eating only Christmas cake. Fruit is also eaten, notably cotoneaster (41% of the fruit consumed), ivy and honeysuckle, and apple if available. Some birds have learned to take peanuts from feeders. Blackcaps defend good winter food sources in the wild, and at garden feeding stations they repel competitors as large as starlings and blackbirds. Birds occasionally become tame enough to feed from the hand.
Aristotle, in his History of Animals, considered that the garden warbler eventually metamorphosed into a blackcap. The blackcap's song has led to it being described as the mock nightingale or country nightingale. Verga's 1871 novel Storia di una capinera, according to its author, was inspired by a story of a blackcap trapped and caged by children. The bird, silent and pining for its lost freedom, eventually dies. In the book, a nun evacuated from her convent by cholera falls in love with a family friend, only to have to return to her confinement when the disease wanes. The novel was adapted as films of the same name in 1917, 1943 and 1993. The last version was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and its English-language version was retitled as Sparrow. In Saint François d'Assise, an opera by Messiaen, the orchestration is based on bird song. St Francis himself is represented by the blackcap.
Folk names for the blackcap often refer to its most obvious plumage feature (black-headed peggy, King Harry black cap and coal hoodie) or to its song, as in the nightingale names above. Other old names are based on its choice of nesting material (Jack Straw, hay bird, hay chat and hay Jack). There is a tradition of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm bases being named for birds. A former base near Stretton in Cheshire was called HMS Blackcap.
Population:
UK breeding:
1,200,000 territories
UK wintering:
3,000 birds
New collaboration with by my friend and wife Mariya Tokareva. She made all the post processing.
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Some fiddling about in lightroom to bring the reflection up to be brighter than the subject. Use a graduated filter increasing exposure to do this and finish off with a brightening/positive vignette
Off for the weekend, but the sunny days of spring will be hidden behind clouds and rain. This isn't a bad thing. The weekend is mostly for photographing cemeteries on X-ray film. Some lovely dark clouds will help with the sky.
I'm going for (and counting upon) the dark and brooding. Hopefully.
They're calling for rain, but it likely won't be enough to stop me from shooting. Same with the wind. It won't be a gale, but beautiful still lifes of wildflowers are probably out of the question.
I hope to return with some pictures for you to see and many you never will.
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'Internal'
Camera: Ansco Color Clipper
Film: Vericolor III; x-04/1996
Process: DIY ECN-2
Washington
April 2024
Vertical staircase bannisters on an internal stairscase, horizontal venetian blinds, big glass shopfront window and reflections.
I was in Texas in 2021. That was such a long time ago. I wonder when I'll get back. This isn't hinting at anything. I really don't know.
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'Internal'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Fuji Velvia 50; 04/1992; 12iso
Process: DIY ECN-2
Texas
July 2021
Saint Gayane Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Գայանե եկեղեցի or Surb Gayane) is a 7th Century Armenian church in Etchmiadzin, the religious center of Armenia. Located just south of the perimeter of the large precincts that belong to Etchmiadzin Cathedral, the mother church of Armenia. It was originally built in 630, and its design has remained unchanged despite partial renovations of the dome and some ceilings in 1652.
It is part of the ‘Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots’ UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It was built on the site of an existing shrine to the eponymous nun and martyr at the spot where she is said to have been killed by King Tiridates III of Armenia in 301, during the events that led to the country’s conversion to Christianity.
It consists of a three-nave domed basilica with an octagonal drum resting on four internal pillars that divide the interior of the church into three naves. The exterior has a cruciform-plan gable roof with the drum and dome placed central to the main structure.
An airy, triple-arched portico was added to the western façade of the church in 1683 as the burial place for prominent Armenian clergymen. It is situated in a substantial external courtyard surrounded by thick and sometimes ornately carved walls which date from ca. 1866-82.
I'll start the image flow from my recent (October 2016) trip to the USA Canyon Lands with this image from Antelope Canyon.
This was my second trip to Antelope Canyon in Arizona, and I had two goals in mind; shoot some classic scenes with new eyes, skills, and equipment. AND shoot some more abstract compositions with the hope I could put my own impression on a place that surely every square inch has been photographed.
Hope you like this first of several from the canyon.
In it's natural beauty explodes the colors of floral internal combustion !
Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul...Darrell.
Have a safe and fun day dear Flickr friends !
Surrealistic painting in watercolor and pen on A3 paper,then textured and added a photo of Daiko,special thanks to Ipiccy who made this possible>
Thanks for the visit have a nice day.
Not for medical use
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Internal & External beauty of the legendary M62 locomotive 💚
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Innere und äußere Schönheit der legendären "Wumme" M62 💚
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Back lighting gave the appearance that this Yellow-crowned Night Heron had swallowed a bit of sunshine, on Horsepen Bayou.
I debated internally about the selective colour, but in the end decided to stay with it, since the CN Tower (the worlds tallest free standing structure) demands to stand out...
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“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” -Sir Edmund Hillary
It’s very true that internal challenges can be the most difficult. There will always be inner mountains to climb and if I’ve learned anything in my life, it’s that we’re much stronger and resilient than we give ourselves credit for.
When I’m feeling overwhelmed or beaten down, notebooks are one thing that have always helped me. To write things down and get them out of my head puts things into perspective. The problem often doesn’t seem so daunting then.
Notebook from Wildlight and Wonder, bandana from Wayfaring Wolves (Etsy).
At some point it was bound to happen. The edifice of reality slips and there it is: the essense of reality.
This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love
The fire risk that's made the news headlines across the country also affected the North Yorkshire Moors Railway's ability to run steam locomotives. On Tuesday afternoon we made the decision to switch to diesel locomotives the following day.
A huge thanks to the staff and volunteers who stepped up to the challenge to adjust rosters.
There's always an opportunity with this kind of challenge and it was good to spend the morning before Trust Board on Friday enjoying some diesel photography.
I was also encouraged to see quite a lot of diesel fans out getting their diesel haulage in.
Rain is due this coming week, but it will take a lot to saturate the tinder dry ground and vegetation.
Working the short internal set, 37264 passes Park Gate with the 10.55 Pickering to Grosmont.
Aston Martin .. powered by a Cossy twin turbo charged 5.2 Lt V12 . Power , Adequate as they say , around 700 HP ..... In discussion with the owner K , I used that word Cossy and he said What ..Cossworth .. right Ok . He hadn't heard of that terminology before . I'm showing my age ... I said we alway referred to them as Cossy's .. the masters of engine design and engineering . an English company going back to the late 1950s .. a company held in very high regard by all in the performance and racing departments of the internal combustion engine .. If is Cossworth its good , very good !
I said have you got new wheels on the car .. I thought they looked a little different .. well spotted mate..
D n D Coffee
Kenmore
Brisbane
Experienced yet another summer thunderstorm over the weekend. The operative word being experienced. I'm not one to watch storms from a window, at least at the outset. I'm not keen on standing outside in a downpour. But I love for the moments as storms draw near but just before they unleash monsoonal rain. We had a storm the other night where that time span was just a few minutes. This weekend storm by contrast lasted for over an hour. The storm billowed up out of a clear sky, during heavy rain, rumbling continuous thunder, and crackling with lightning. But it was nearly stationary and centered a mile or two north of the village. I grabbed the camera and headed up to the cemetery thinking I would be there for just a few minutes. But the storm just sat there, with nearly no forward motion, leaving me right beneath the boundary between blue sky and dark turmoil. At times the dark clouds drifted in front of the sun, blotting it out completely, sometimes creating dramatic backlighting and shadows. The light was ever changing, and very unsettled. This is one of the many wondrous scenes that appeared above me. A strange luminance appeared as the light hitting lower clouds illuminated higher ones; a sort of halo effect complete with sun rays It evolved in just a few moments and lasted only seconds. I was poised for this moment, as if it was created solely for my eyes.
Europe, Netherlands, Den Haag, Rijnstraat, multi-ministery building (ex-VROM - Jan Hoogstad) (cut from all sides)
Displayed here is the the former VROM (Volkshuisvesting, Ruimtelijke Ordening en Milieubeheer) ministery building (Jan Hoogstad, 1992), shot from the Randstad Rail station. It’s been recently renovated and will be used by the 'Infrastructuur en Milieu' and other ministries.
When a modernist building is lit from within at night, standing outside such a building one can understand what the influential modernist architecture theorist and propagandist Siegfried Gideon meant with “durchdringung”. For him this was the quintessential property of a modernist building. On the structural level it meant that the facades are glass, enabled through the non-load bearing character of them. The load bearing is handled by the internal pillar based sketelon, which also enables left out walls and floors (creating atria - this capture here is shot right into one of the multilevel atria of the building).
The effect of all this on the eye is that it can wander through and out of the building from just one vantage point. On a metaphysical level, according to Gideon, this meant that time and space conflate – in a way one can be at many places at one time, without moving. At the height of the modernist times this space and time thing was very popular.Also in art. Checkout van Doesburg's ‘Construction in Space-Time II: here.
Shot while returning from a delightful family diner in The Hague. From winter-solstice to epiphany (‘Driekoningen’), the family centrepetal forces are at its max ;-)
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