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"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!" ~ Mark Twain
Food for thought:
"People can be divided into three groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened." : ) John Newborn
Just as Spring time is the land Awakening, it is also a good time to press the restart button for our own awakening...and if you're like me, there is always something in my life to "wake up" and find good reason to "press that restart button." Like this photograph, at first things may seem a little blurry, but slowing but surely things come into focus as we step out into the land of change! It's a wonderful thing and so freeing!
Have a great Wednesday in all you do!
And keep up those beautiful,stunning and unique captures! You all are amazing!
.....what I'm guessing a bumble bee might say if you asked what it feels like to land on this anemone to gather pollen.
Waiting out Irene, we've been in the early bands of torrential rain since last last night. 3+ inches so far and another 8-10 hours of rain to go. Winds are just beginning to pick up. Amazing to see roads closed and a series of local dikes set up in anticipation of flooding - the first time in more than 20 years that's happened.
Yesterday Rona visited her sister in Munich and we took the chance to meetup and shoot a lot of photos :) Thank you again Rona for the wonderful day and I'm so proud you made it through all the efforts while feeling ill! We had to fight hard battles again the sun and hills and rude people and 128731234651 ants but still it was so much.
This is one of the last photos of the day when we managed to catch this beautiful light in the Olympia Park.
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As it meanders through the Hampshire countryside, a beautifully engineered victorian bridge crosses the single track railway of the Watercress Line
Mild HDR on an archived single image
the other way around.
I just heard that ppl do this in order to protect in rough parking situations...
Wouldn't it be good to be on your side
The grass is always greener over there
And wouldn't it be good
If we could live without a care
~Nik Kershaw
Looks like it's been at the honey pot - you can see the evidence stuck to the eyeball. Caught this one just as it was settling down for a wee snooze.
hoverfly Platycheirus sp.
reversed 18-55 @ 18mm
1/200
f8
iso 200
handheld, flash, stack 8
My grandma was very sick. She was in the hospital. A few days later she would pass away. It was a terrible time.
Often in the midst of terrible times are beautiful times. My family gathered together from around the country, most of us staying at my grandparents' house. There were days of hospital vigils, and there were days of holding down the fort and supporting those on vigil. There were many meals, and then, many walks after the meals through the beautiful Arizona desert.
My uncle and his family live near my grandparents and they have a series of trails they take on a daily basis; desert walks that take you on back streets along a canal through the town's cemetery to mesquite bosque to a little hidden lake.
These flags were at the cemetery.
Just a month earlier, for Christmas, Steve had gotten me a red plastic camera. An Usagi Flower. It's based on the Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim. I don't shoot film (I've shot one roll of film in the last 20 years), so the two rolls he got me (one color, one B&W) were both a treat and a mystery. I took my camera to Arizona, hoping my grandmother would get better. I shot a few photos. Quickly I realized she wasn't getting better. Sorrow took over. The camera was forgotten, wedged into the depths of a suitcase and later put upon a shelf. It seemed unimportant or at the very least something I could get to later.
It's almost two-and-a-half years later and I just got the film processed. Seeing this photo of the Safford Cemetery brought it all back. The treasured walks with my family, the sorrow of losing my grandmother, and the eagerness (in the beginning) of trying out a new little plastic camera and a roll of film.
It's so pretty here in the springtime.
I think this photo would be perfect if there were a man lying on a red towel in the grass. :)
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A wet Saturday afternoon so I decided to try something different with the splash art kit. Not an original idea as I have seen this done before.
Full fat milk in the egg for the white and milk again with a drop of food colouring for the yolk.
Strobist: 2 x YN560IV at 45° to egg. Front camera left and right. Diffused, 24mm, 1/128.
Off to the Photography Show tomorrow. Happy Days...
It's a picture of a holy tree. Only changes were to clarity and vibrance then exported. The effect is produced by a Russian lens called Helios-44-2 which has been modified (by myself) to produce a super bokeh effect. I'm always fascinated by the swirly effect this lens produces. Only works under certain lighting conditions.
But All You See Is It Fall.
Lyrics from The Kooks ( they're really flippin' good. ). There's something about this building that keeps drawing me to post these shots. I know I keep posting various versions of this description but it's still mind boggling that 12,000 people used to work in this facility:
Construction began in 1903 and after only 90 days Packard started producing vehicles here. The plant would take another 4 years to be completed ( although other buildings were later added ) , officially opening in 1907. It primarily closed in 1957. This is the abandoned Packard Plant in Detroit MI, once the state of the art manufacturing facility in the entire world and a model for plants for the next 40 years. The latest pictures I've taken there, I'm hoping, reveal the sheer size of this complex and help one understand the amount of damage it has received over time, as well as the ability to picture what it was like 60 years ago when 12,000 people worked here and it was a beehive of activity. There is a compelling quality to this place, a beauty that still shines through despite it's years of neglect, that hopefully I've in some way captured and conveyed to you.
The steamy atmosphere of our compost heap certainly attracts a variety of creepy crawlies - but here at the top of the food chain are several Slow Worms basking in it's humidity - plus the odd snack too whilst enjoying each other's company
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For a lifetime we have taken this weather—our thoughts and feelings—to be ourselves, taken ourselves to be this video to which the attention is riveted. Stillness reveals that we are the silent, vast awareness in which the video is playing. To glimpse this fundamental truth is to be liberated, to be set free from the fowler’s snare (Ps 123: 7). “Who ever trusts in the Lord is like Mount Zion: Unshakeable, it stands forever” (Ps 125: 1). “Mount Zion, true pole of the earth, the great King’s city” (Ps 48: 2).
-Martin Laird, Into the Silent Land
It does not feel like a sad friday today. Certainly not a sad bokeh friday. This is the best I can do today. Some orange berries on a leaf close to being plucked clean by the birds. Is it sad? The birds ate the berries. The berries will return next year. It was a little chilly. But the sadneressness? Not rly.
Come post better. You will not make me sad though. It is umpossible.
Brickell Arch is an office skyscraper in Brickell in Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. It was designed by the architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC (KPF). The 505-foot (168 meter), 36-story building is located on the southern end of Brickell Avenue in the Financial District. On April 18, 2012, the AIA's Florida Chapter placed the building on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.
Brickell Arch features a concave parabola design on its front glass façade, loosely mimicking the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. One of Miami's common nicknames is "The Gateway to Latin America", which also closely resembles St. Louis's nickname, "The Gateway to the West". It is said to welcome people to the United States as the arch welcomes people to the west.
The building is the North American headquarters for the Espírito Santo Bank and contains some Class A office space. A Conrad Hotel as well as some residential units occupy the remaining space. The building opened July 1, 2004, and is located at 1395 Brickell Avenue, less than a block from the Financial District Metromover Station.
The building has been featured twice in Burn Notice, once as headquarters for a defense contractor, and again in a skyline shot.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickell_Arch
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I made Japanese New Year Item "Hagoita" for JAPONICA
Package include non scripted version and wearable object with pose animations.
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The basilica is the most important work of neo-Gothic Ecuadorian architecture and is one of the most representative of the Americas. It is the largest neo-Gothic basilica in the New World. The building is noted for its grotesques in the form of native Ecuadorian animals such as armadillos, iguana, and Galapagos tortoises.
The Basilica is 140 m (460 ft) long and 35 m (115 ft) wide. It is 30 m (98 ft) high in the sanctuary, 15 m (49 ft) high in the votive chapels, 74 m (243 ft) high in the transept, and 115 m (377 ft) high in the two frontal towers. In the sanctuary, there are fourteen bronze images representing eleven apostles and three evangelists. In the crypt, there is a pantheon containing the remains of several heads of state.
Karl discovers the truth.
Hope you all have a great weekend and may you, too, discover a bit of truth.
Whenever I am trying to get photos of the Albinos I have to be ready at all times or I will miss a photo worth capturing. Albino whitetail deer Suzy, saw a Bluejay fly right over her head and land in the tree above her. She got the most amazing expression on her face and I was lucky enough to catch it.
Picture taken with a Canon 50D with a 70-200 L zoom lens.
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