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i sit besides you
you come in my dreams
i wake up alone ~m~
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Once in a lifetime........
The past few days I've been out photographing a lot of wildlife. I spent time in the mountains and foothills of northern Colorado. One morning we went to a local lake where we were staying just to enjoy whatever showed up in front of the lens. There was one particular male Broad-tailed hummingbird that kept landing on a tree branch every ten minutes or so. I was eagerly waiting for his arrival, when I heard some hummingbird commotion in the air. I could clearly hear two hummingbirds. I watched one come down and land on a reed in the marsh in front of me. It was a lovely little female that I had not yet seen. I took a few shots of her, and then she flew off to another perch. I turned my attention back to where the male might land, but he changed his mind. Once again, I heard a commotion and turned just in time to see the female land, quickly followed by something else. I didn't even have time to understand what I was seeing. I heard my mouth open and say" There are TWO of them.........MATING!!" I lifted my camera up to my eye as quickly as humanly possible and prayed I could get focus. I literally had 2 seconds to get any shots. They were not particularly close to me and they are tiny little beings. I shot at my highest frame rate of 20 frames per second. I actually think I had one second of shooting. I caught a number of frames of the mating sequence. I am still in shock that I saw this. I doubt I will ever see this again......
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The foundations of the tea house were laid during the lifetime of Louis-Joseph Papineau, while the wood frame structure dates to the time of Amédée Papineau. According to Parks Canada, “in 1860, Louis-Joseph Papineau had a hen house / dove cot built upon a stone base. In 1887, a greenhouse was built using these same foundations. Around 1913, the greenhouse was demolished and replaced by an Italianate tea house featuring a balustraded rooftop terrace. All four sides of the tea house are glassed-in. At one time, a path from the tea house led to a scenic lookout offering a superb panoramic view of the Ottawa River.”
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Built by Papineau in 1846, the Manor of Montebello, is a National Historic Site in Montebello, Quebec.
Home to the Papineau family from 1850 to 1929, overlooking the Ottawa River. The site commemorates Louis-Joseph Papineau, the man who was to become a leading figure in Canadian politics during the 19th century. The impressive architecture designed by Louis-Joseph Papineau.It was designated a national historic site in 1974, the Manor House was restored to it its original elegance and grandeur by Parks Canada in 1994
"Past Lifetimes"
"There are also the experiences that become imprinted on our souls, and the pains of a different lifetime are etched upon our faces. We have proof of those moments by the words we speak and the actions we display, now intertwined with our inner being."
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A true once in a lifetime (for someone born in 1991) experience,as 45699 'Galatea' digs into the 1 in 75 climb to Shap with 11 coaches in tow whilst working "The Cumbrian Coast Express" on 30th May 2015. The unbelievable sight of 70000 'Britannia' is also seen in the same shot as it passes Greenholme with "The Cumbrian Fells Express" on 30th May 2015,the two trains were less than 4 minutes apart,45699's struggle badly hindering The Brit!
Ruins of the Ancient Greek Theatre at Taormina, 1905, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853 – 1919), the Hungarian painter loved by Picasso.
"Csontváry’s works were exhibited in Paris in 1948. Picasso spent an hour outside the exhibition’s regular opening hours viewing them, and after emerging, declared “I did not realize there was another great painter in this century aside from myself.”
Csontváry probably would have taken issue with Picasso’s proclamation, arguing that he was a more significant painter even than Raphael."
"On the hot sunny afternoon of 13 October 1880, when Csontvary was 27 years old, he had a mystic vision. He heard a voice saying, 'You will be the greatest Sunway Painter, greater than Raphael!' He took journeys around Europe, visited the galleries of the Vatican, and returned to Hungary to earn money for his journeys by working as an apothecary. From 1890, he traveled around the world. He visited Paris, the Mediterraneum (Dalmatia, Italy, Greece), North Africa and the Middle East (Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Syria) and painted pictures. Often his pictures are very large, several metres wide and height is not unusual."
"In recent decades, Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry has become a true national hero. After all, he has all the necessary attributes: he was only celebrated after his time, his canon of work is not only spectacular, but also unique, and his contemporaries in Hungarian society treated him as all future national heroes were: he was mocked and humiliated.
He painted his major works between 1901 and 1909. He had some exhibitions in Paris (1907) and Western Europe. Most of the critics in Western Europe recognized his abilities, art and congeniality, but in the Kingdom of Hungary during his life, he was considered to be an eccentric crank for several reasons, e. g. for his vegetarianism, anti-alcoholism, anti-smoking, pacifism, and his cloudy, prophetic writings and pamphlets about his life (Curriculum), genius (The Authority, The Genius) and religious philosophy (The Positivum). Some of his biographists considered this as a latent, but increasingly disruptive schizophrenia. Although he was later acclaimed, during his lifetime Csontváry found little understanding for his visionary, expressionistic style. A loner by nature, his “failure” impaired his creative power.
His art connects with post-impressionism and expressionism, but he was an autodidact and cannot be classified into one style. He identified as a "sunway"-painter, a term which he created.
The painter, after being derided for decades, ended up starving to death after the Soviet Republic took everything away from him.
He starved to death.
To give us an idea of how his life’s work was rated at the time, his heirs attempted to sell the paintings to delivery men as they were painted on high-quality canvas. Were it not for Gedeon Gerlóczy, who recognized Csontváry’s genius and bought them all up, there would be no paintings surviving to this day.
Today, a Csontváry is worth millions of Euros."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivadar_Csontv%C3%A1ry_Kosztka
bestbudapest.blog.hu/2015/07/22/csontvary_the_hungarian_p...
The Palace of Charles V, located within the Alhambra complex in Granada, Spain, stands as a hallmark of the Spanish Renaissance, an era of artistic and cultural flourish that marked the country in the 16th century. Commissioned by Emperor Charles V, King of Spain and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, following his marriage to Isabel of Portugal and his visit to Granada, the palace was conceived as a royal residence that would manifest the power and grandeur of the empire.
Designed by the architect Pedro Machuca, an innovator of his time who had studied in Italy, the palace is notable for its impressive Renaissance facade and its unique circular courtyard, breaking with the Spanish medieval tradition. Its construction began in 1527 but was never completed during Charles V's lifetime, leaving the palace roofless and unfulfilled in its original purpose as a residence. Despite this, its architecture represents a unique blend of influences: it combines elements of Italian Renaissance with Spanish Plateresque details, making the palace an outstanding example of Renaissance architecture in Spain.
Today, the Palace of Charles V houses two significant museums in Granada: the Alhambra Museum, on the ground floor, dedicated to Muslim art and artifacts found in the Alhambra, and the Granada Museum of Fine Arts, on the first floor, offering a cultural and artistic perspective across the ages. The history of the palace reflects the complexity and cultural richness of Spain, marking a meeting point between the past and the present, where architectural beauty becomes a lasting testament to the imperial legacy of Charles V.
All the places I have traveled and photographed in my lifetime since I was a teenager.
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You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.
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Held each November at the time of the Kartik Purnima full moon, Pushkar Camel Fair is one of India’s most highly-rated travel experiences, a spectacle on an epic scale, attracting camels, horses and cattle visited by over 400,000 people over a period of around fourteen days.
For visitors it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the colour, spectacle and carnival of one of the last great traditional melas, which brings livestock, farmers, traders and villagers from all over Rajasthan.
Player Tamarindo in Costa Rica, last month on a holiday of a lifetime
The air was so clean and being so close to the equator the sunsets were amazing...these surfer's on their way home
A diptych to demonstrate my lifetime friendship with dogs. On the left, that's me holding the paw of Phred, my best boyhood golden retriever pal (That's my brother and sister too). Fast forward forty-some years and there I am holding the paw of my current best canine friend, Jasper. We're in Wisconsin and arrived at my parents' house this afternoon where I grew up. Both shots taken pretty much in the exact same spot.
Questa è una fotografia che volevo fare da parecchio tempo. Il soggetto mi piace molto e lo trovo assai interessanti da immortalare. Questo scatto l'ho eseguito con un'unica idea nella mente: riuscire a descrivere il passaggio della vita. Infatti la vita è stupenda, come questo bellissimo esemplare della natura, ma però va pian piano consumandosi. Perciò io ritengo che si deve vivere a fondo per tutta la vita, vivere la propria vita. Questo è importante.
1992, Start of Operational Life, Heerlen.
E-1709, seen in Heerlen, on a factory trial-run prior to acceptance by Dutch Rail.
Best view
"When we say things like "people don't change" it drives scientists crazy because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy. Matter. It's always changing, morphing, merging, growing, dying.
It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting things be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing despite every scientific indication that anything in this lifetime is permanent.
Change is constant.
How we experience change that's up to us. It can feel like death or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline.
Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Like at any moment, we can be born all over again."
I took this shot today at The Raptor Trust in Millington, NJ, on the border of The Geat Swamp. It goes out to the memory of Leonard Soucy, founder of the Raptor Trust and one of the foremost advocates of wildlife rehabilitation in the United States. Len died this week after a lifetime of caring for animals - more than 60,000 wild birds have been cared for by the trust. The Leonard J. Soucy Memorial Fund has been set up in his name. For more information, go to www.theraptortrust.org
It's amazing how many slides a photographer could accumulate over the course of a lifetime. Slow process to go through them all. Without a basic scanner, though, it would be much harder.
L'excès...je l'ai bel et bien tué, mais le voilà, il resurgit, sous son masque décadent, morbide et névrosé, versant dans la déchéance. Une vie condamnée par la quête d'un 'je', difficile à saisir.
Un choix entre l'art ou la vie? J'ai fait le mien…
“I Stand Where the Silence Ends”
I stand alone where the world forgets to breathe.
A horizon emptied of noise, of time, of mercy.
The salt beneath my feet whispers of lifetimes
I never got to live.
Above me, the moon,
not gentle, not maternal,
but colossal, cold, a witness.
They saw it all, didn’t they ?
The ache lodged in my ribs,
the nights I begged quietly,
the mornings I wore my own pain like perfume.
My arms are open, not in surrender,
but because I don’t know where else to put them.
When everything you touch turns to frost,
you start to wonder
if maybe your body was made of winter all along.
The world paints me distant,
but they don’t see how close I am to shattering.
They call this solitude, pride,
I call it survival.
And even here,
where nothing grows,
where the sea forgot its voice,
I may rise.
Not as hope.
Not as defiance.
But as the quiet fact of someone
who is still here,
despite it all.
Written by my dear friend Lina.
Hawai'i Nights, the book I recently published, might be thought as mostly a nice collection of images, but Hawai'i Nights is a lot more. It's a (true) story that starts as a typical and predictable family trip to Kauai and ends up in a mad frenzy out of a seemingly impossible quest.
This, the last picture I'll post here from the book (also one of the last pictures I took for the book), is an image loaded with so many emotions that it compresses the entire Hawai'i Nights in a single image. It's impossible to describe on a post, but those who've already read the book know what I'm talking about.
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"At a time when $700 billion can be found overnight to bail out the richest bankers in the world and $1000 billion can be spent on one single “war,” when sovereign wealth funds in a few rich countries alone are at $2500 billion and growing, it stretches credulity when we are told that the world can’t find an extra $18 billion a year to save the lives of millions of children and women and meet the basic needs of the majority of the world’s population."
---- Global Director, U.N. Millennium Campaign, Salil Shetty www.hindu.com/2008/10/08/stories/2008100855121100.htm
Another 40 million people have been pushed into hunger in 2008 primarily due to higher food prices, according to preliminary estimates published by FAO. This brings the overall number of undernourished people in the world to 963 million, compared to 923 million in 2007 and the ongoing financial and economic crisis could tip even more people into hunger and poverty, FAO warned.
Nearly one billion people go hungry each day, 65 percent of them in just seven countries: India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Congo, reported the UN food agency ( www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/8836/ ). “For millions of people in developing countries, eating the minimum amount of food every day to live an active and healthy life is a distant dream”, said FAO’ Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem.
The globalisation had to ensure the maximum good for the maximum numbers around the world and not just the privileged few who got richer under the corrupt political regime. It is true that every successful economy is a market economy, the problem lay in the way it evolved in the corrupt regime which privatised profits and socialised losses. That is not capitalism. The current crisis showed that system was inadequate to cope with the changing situation. The societies needed to practise social responsibility throughout their business, ensuring that they did not make profits by harming lives, livelihoods and the environment.
Eight years ago, in 2000, leaders of 189 countries signed the Millennium Declaration agreeing to do everything in their power to end poverty. They pledged to do this by achieving the Millennium Development Goals, a roadmap to end extreme poverty by 2015. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
Still, every day, 50,000 people die as a result of extreme poverty and the gap between rich and poor people is increasing. Nearly half the world’s population live in poverty, 70% are women.
We have the power to change this. Push your governments for peace, more and better aid, debt cancellation, education for all boys and girls, healthcare, trade justice, gender equality and public accountability.
Say No To Unfair Social System!
Say No To Corrupt Political Regime!
Say No To Unfair World Order!!!
Say No To Unfair Trade!!!!
Fight for peace!
Fight against hunger!!
We can make 'War, Terrorism and Hunger History' in our lifetime!!!
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In a darkened field, a lifetime after dusk, the Gambler was the one who saw....the Vermillion Storm was rising. IT STARTS TONIGHT....
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Lifetime gym rat Micky O'Hagan is also the corner man and trainer for many of the Somewhereville boxers including, Bran "the Bull Donnelly." His impeccable record is due to the fact that none of his fighters have actually made it into the ring--making Micky a corner man without a corner. At least nobody gets hurt.
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Over time even 'bad' photographs are treasured.
If memory serves, this was snapped in the 1960's in Bournemouth. The outing became memorable - not in a good way - due to the fact that the 115 or so miles took 7 (seven) hours. It was a Whitsun holiday and the M3 motorway has not been built. Right there and then I made a promise to not travel outside London on a public holiday. To this day i've kept that promise.