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The route covered by the PeruRail Titicaca train is considered by many travel magazines to be one of the most beautiful in the world.
Things are a bit slow when I’m relegated to shooting a succulent in my backyard, but my plant seemed in the mood for a portrait, and I was too lazy to look elsewhere. So here she is.
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The Succulent:
In botany, succulent plants, also known as succulents, are plants with parts that are thickened, fleshy, and engorged, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions. The word succulent comes from the Latin word sucus, meaning "juice" or "sap."
Succulent plants may store water in various structures, such as leaves and stems. The water content of some succulents can get up to 90 to 95%. The habitats of these water-preserving plants are often in areas with high temperatures and low rainfall, such as deserts, but succulents may be found even in alpine ecosystems growing in rocky soil. Succulents are characterized by their ability to thrive on limited water sources, such as mist and dew, which makes them equipped to survive in an ecosystem that contains scarce water sources.
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(Nikon Z6ll, 180-600/6.3, 1/400 @ f/9.0, ISO 10000, edited to taste)
The Latin Quarter of Paris is situated on the left bank of the Seine, around the Sorbonne.
Known for its student life, lively atmosphere and bistros, the Latin Quarter is the home to a number of higher education establishments besides the university itself, such as the Lang–Martinez Psychiatric Hospital, the École des Mines de Paris, Panthéon-Assas University, the Schola Cantorum, and the Jussieu university campus. Other establishments such as the École Polytechnique have relocated in recent times to more spacious settings.
The area gets its name from the Latin language, which was once widely spoken in and around the University since Latin was the language of learning in the Middle Ages in Europe.
67 boulevard Saint Germain, 75005 Paris, France
Two main Albums are located on the crossing of boulevard Saint Germain and boulevard Saint Jacques. Who's already around Latin Quarter and fountain St-Michel, will find them easily. One of them - Album Comics - sells American stuff, all the new Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and indie books, but also the most important French releases. Shop's windows are covered with statues, busts and vinyl toys. There's also very good artbook section, with all the making-of movie books, sketchbooks, artist artbooks and US and Asian picture books. Artbooks in general tend to be heavy and imported ones are not cheap, so it's possibly the best idea just to browse and remember all the cool stuff. And then to go home and get them from the net, without the need to drag them around the airports and planes. (From the shop's viewpoint it's not a nice thing to say, I know
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This picture was taken during the Magic Nature, Birding, Photo Circuit of Ecuador at San Jorge Ecolodges and Botanical Reserves network.
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It is commonly known as the Twin Cities after the area's two largest cities, Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
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A music video I created from stock footage
Music created on my iPad / Mac
Photo Manipulated, from one of
my original paintings.
" Latin Roots " 2007
Acrylics on Acrylite AR Sheet
33"h x 23 1/2"w
Love them! Love lofi!
Wikipedia sez:
Latin Playboys is a musical group comprised of David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez, Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake. They were active in the 1990s.
The band began with a series of demo recordings made by Hidaldo on a home cassette tape 4-track machine. The demos were intended for Hidalgo's main group, Los Lobos, but producer/keyboardist Froom thought the demos were interesting enough on their own to justify a new band. With Los Lobos member Pérez, and Froom's frequent production partner Blake, Latin Playboys was formed.
Latin Playboys was released in 1994 and Dose in 1999. Critic Richie Unterberger[1] described their music as "a twisted and avant-garde take on roots music. Latin Playboys draw from blues, border music, experimental studio trickery, and cinematic sound textures."
The conventional English translation appeared in John Heywood's collection of Proverbs in 1546. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable also credits Erasmus, and relates it to other Latin proverbs, Planta quae saepius transfertus non coalescit, or Saepius plantata arbor fructum profert exiguum, which mean that a frequently replanted plant or tree (respectively) yields little fruit. It appears that the original intent of the proverb saw the growth of moss as desirable, and that the intent was to condemn mobility as unprofitable. The contemporary interpretation has turned the traditional understanding on its head.
Erasmus's proverb gave the name "rolling stone" to people who meet this description.
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Anycheese, more interestingly, this is Wistmans Wood. A magical and enchanted woodland full of knarly, twisted, stunted Oak trees and mossy granite boulders. I have been here many times, never before with camera. It is soooo difficult to get a composition. The woodland is thought to be one of the few remnants of ancient woodland on Dartmoor dating from prehistoric times. Apparently the wood is haunted by a pack of Yeth hounds and it is from here that they start their wild hunt across the moorland. They follow their master, who may be the Devil, Odin, or any number of spectral huntsmen on the search for souls across the moorlands. The dogs are described as jet-black in colour snorting fire from their nostrils. Coooool! Didnt see any though.. I will go back on a full moon and really take some shots.
Boulevard Saint-Michel.
El Barrio Latino (en francés, Quartier Latin) es una zona del Vº distrito de París, en las proximidades de Universidad de La Sorbona, ocupa la orilla izquierda del Sena.
El barrio debe su nombre a que durante la Edad Media los estudiantes hablaban el Latín como lengua académica, este era el distintivo del barrio parisino donde la población era eminentemente estudiantil. Desde ese entonces, ya sus calles hormiguean de estudiantes. La Sorbona se encuentra en la parte alta del barrio, sobre la llamada Montaña Santa Genoveva.
Desde la Edad Media los estudiantes residentes en el barrio, tuvieron gran influencia en la vida de París y en consecuencia de Francia, destacando además por su militancia política los movimientos estudiantiles de los siglos XIX y XX, durante los cuales floreció el blanquismo, una doctrina revolucionaria, ahí encontraron refugio los carboneros y en sus calles se instalaron las barricadas durante la Comuna de París. Fue el espacio central de los acontecimientos del Mayo Francés del 68.
Classic school building in Stockholm. From 1880. Designed by Helgo Zettervall. Today known as Stockholm International School. Photographed as a panorama with the Canon 77D, using the 60mm lens. It took 14 photos. Shot over a fence.
This Collage was made from the photos I took of murals while walking around the Mission District in San Francisco
International Ballroom dance and Latin dance competition in HK in Apr 2007.
EOS 30D
Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8
Latin name
Recurvirostra avosetta
Family
Stilts and avocets (Recurvirostridae)
Overview
A distinctively-patterned black and white wader with a long up-curved beak. It is the emblem of the RSPB and symbolises the bird protection movement in the UK more than any other species. Its return in the 1940s and subsequent increase in numbers represents one of the most successful conservation and protection projects.
Where to see them
Coastal lagoons on the east coast in summer and the Exe estuary in winter.
When to see them
Along the east coast of England in summer and in the South-West in winter.
What they eat
Aquatic insects and their larvae, crustaceans and worms.
When I was in Paris France I was searching out for something to paint,then I saw this couple just walking down the streets of the Latin Quarter and thought you know what that pretty much sums up what Paris is all about,walking down the streets with a loved one, perhaps heading off to a cafe for a light brunch before going to the Louvre and dreaming with the artists of the past.Steve.H.
Mallard! Latin: Anas Platyrhynchos, Swedish: Gräsand, Maj 2020, Arvidsjaur, Lapland, Sweden.
Canon 7D Mk2, Tamron DI VC USD. 150-600 5,0-6,3.
Locución latina que significa "en palabra de nadie", se interpreta también como "mira por ti mismo", llamando a buscar la verdad con experimentos, más allá de las presiones políticas, sociales, religiosas u otras.
Dutch micro-carving from the late Middle Ages can be seen in Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Fascinating exhibition.
See what he is looking at:
It is inscribed: I(oui) O(ptimo) M(aximo) ue(x)il(I)atio
Rectorum Gaesat(orum) q(uorum) c(uram)
a(git) Iul(ius) Seuer(inus) trib(unus)
Which means:
"To Jupiter, Best and Greatest, the detachment of Raetian Spearmen, under the acting command of Julius Severinus, their tribune, (set this up)."
...well so me mom says :-)