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When the sun gets drops behind the mountains, the feel and focus of an area seems to change quickly. As the valley begins to fill with shade, the wonderful golden light and bright blue hues give way to more muted colours, creating the opportunity to direct the viewers attention. Sometimes the mountains create a spotlight for you to play with. Or, well, that's the theory.
On the other hand, I just really love those blue green tones and back lit trees.
Shot with a Canon 5D IV, 24-70 f/2.8L ii, and a LEE polarizer. Processed in Camera Raw and Photoshop.
A forgotten wheelchair on the entrance of the hospital my grandfαther was hospitalised for the last time...
film, 2015
Nikon FM, nikkor 50mm 1.8
Griff's Burger Bar located at 718 East Irving Blvd. in Irving,TX. The original A-Frame building was demolished in 2013 and replaced with a non-de script structure. Despite the loss of the building, the original sign which dates back to 1963 has remained in place albeit slightly altered.
Sunrise this morning at Downhill Beach looking towards Mussenden Temple.
Mussenden Temple is a small circular building located on cliffs near Castlerock in County Londonderry, high above the Atlantic Ocean on the north-western coast of Northern Ireland.
It was built in 1785 and forms part of the estate of Frederick Augustus Hervey, the 4th Earl of Bristol, Bishop of Derry. Built as a library and modelled from the Temple of Vesta in Italy, it is dedicated to the memory of Hervey's cousin Frideswide Mussenden.
Over the years the erosion of the cliff face at Downhill has brought Mussenden Temple ever closer to the edge, and in 1997 the National Trust carried out cliff stabilisation work to prevent the loss of the building.
The inscription around the building reads, "Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem." "Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore / The troubled sailor, and hear the tempests roar." The quotation is from Lucretius De Rerum Natura, 2.1-2
Now part of the National Trust property of Downhill Estate & Mussenden Temple, the grounds encompassing Mussenden Temple, and its manor house (Downhill Castle) are open to the public all year, from dawn to dusk. The temple itself is open on certain days, and admission is free. The Temple offers views westwards over Downhill Strand towards Magilligan Point and County Donegal and to the east Castlerock beach towards Portstewart, Portrush and Fair Head.
The temple obtained a licence to hold civil wedding ceremonies in 2007.
The streaked bulbul, or green-backed bulbul, is a songbird species in the bulbul family. It is found on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
Scientific name: Ixos malaccensis
Conservation status: Near Threatened (Population decreasing)
For Macro Mondays: The flowers are 1/2 inch long. (It’s damaged because I didn’t water it enough and the flowers wilted.)
For Macro Mondays Theme - Pick Two - Damaged Plant
119 Pictures in 2019 - Theme No. 13 - Bedraggled
This once grand farmhouse, was a showcase for the fortunes of the farmer that grew corn there on the fertile flatlands near Peoria,IL.Life couldn't be better,or the future brighter.
But in the late 1970's and early '80s,things started to go very wrong.Crop prices dropped and interest rates tripled.Then Caterpillar bought large tracts of the now much cheaper farmland nearby.Then the aging owner passed and there was no one to carry on the fading legacy...no one that cared.The decision was made to sell the farm.But Caterpillar wasn't interested in buying more land-it was cheaper to manufacture overseas.And who wants to buy and fix up this fading gem...and live in an area surrounded by smoke belching factories and heavy traffic?
So the farm and its fading showcase waits...with little hope for a future.
a reversal in fortunes indeed...
My dear little dog Rooney passed away in January - a tragic loss for me as he has been my constant companion for the past 12 years. I miss him terribly but I don't know if I will have another at some point.
ODC - A Tragic Loss
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart and you shall see that, in truth, you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
-- Kahlil Gibran
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For Sigi and the Kolbes...there is never an adequate answer to the question, "Why?"...
Habitat is a “home ground” or an environment in which an organism or group of species normally lives or occurs. In this sense, a habitat is any particular place that supports animal or plant life. From the habitat is where plants or animals get their survival essentialities such as water, food, shelter, and breeding grounds.
Different plant or animal species have different necessities for water, shelter, nesting and food. Thus, each and every plant or animal is adapted to survive in a specific kind of habitat. For instance, some turtles live in the seas while others live on land. Some plants grow in the deserts, some in the seas, and some in swampy areas. This shows different species have different needs. Examples of habitats include oceans, streams, or forests.
When a habitat is dramatically altered due to natural or anthropogenic activities such as earthquakes, agriculture, pollution or oil exploration, these places may no longer be able to provide shelter, food, water, or breeding grounds for the living organisms.
Such kind of events lessens the places where plants or animals such as wildlife can live and threatens the survival of various species. That sort of habitat degradation or fragmentation is what is termed as habitat loss and destruction. Habitat loss and destruction are influenced by several drivers which include:
1. Agriculture
Agricultural production has claimed much space of the natural habitat since settlers began converting forests and grasslands to croplands. In the modern world, the pressure to convert lands into resource areas for producing priced foods and crops has increasingly led to habitat loss.
Runoff of agricultural waste, fertilizers, and pesticides into marine and freshwater environments has also transformed streams and water systems. As a result, there has been a tremendous loss of natural crop species, aquatic life, and wildlife habitat.
2. Animal Waste, Sewage, Fertilizer, and Mining Waste Pollution
Marine and freshwater life forms are the most affected by pollution. Pollutants from animal waste, untreated sewage, fertilizers, pesticides, and heavy metals find way into wetlands and water systems and subsequently end up in the food web.
Animal wastes and fertilizers generate nutrients that cause an outburst in algae growth that depletes dissolved oxygen in aquatic systems. Mining wastes may also contain heavy metals that affect the health and breeding of aquatic organisms. Sewage sediments may destroy dwelling grounds of aquatic animals.
3. Industrial and Automobile Pollution
The majority of animal and plant habitats have been destroyed due to the toxic substances and chemicals emitted from industries and automobiles that pose long-term cumulative impacts on the species health. Seriously polluted regions have become dead zones since the conditions have become very harsh for biotic survival. A prime example is an acidic lake which cannot support aquatic life forms. In some areas, only a few organisms can survive owing to the cumulative effects of industrial and automobile pollution.
4. Water Projects
The development of water projects such as hydropower plants, dam construction, and water diversion frequently disconnect or draw off waters thereby altering water chemistry and hydrology. This is because such water projects limit the amount of water and nutrients running downstream.
The downstream section of the river can dry out and the nutrients supporting aquatic life can significantly reduce. As an outcome, gradual habitat loss happens as the water flows downstream.
5. Land Use and Development
The conversion of lands into urban settings, housing developments, office spaces, shopping malls, industrial sites, parking areas, road networks, and so on takes away the naturally occurring land that provided habitat for wildlife and other living organisms. This practice has substantially led to the loss and destruction of millions of acre of natural habitable environments.
6. Global Warming
Global warming is one of the recent leading causes of habitat loss since it changes the physical environmental factors such as temperature and moisture which are essential for a sustainable habitat.
For instance, wildlife that requires cool temperatures of high elevations such as the rock rabbit and mountain gorillas may in the near future run out of habitat due to global warming. Excessive rains, flooding or drought arising out of global warming have also impacted several habitats, contributing to the loss of wildlife and other living organisms.
7. Diversity Loss and Invasive Species
When a certain ecosystem which is home to numerous species collapse, more aggressive species may enter the territory. As the original species struggle to cope in a harsher environment, the invasive species contributes to a further and rapid decline of the habitat and subsequently dominates.
The explosive entry of invasive species into a habitat presents a strong threat to the native species as they struggle to survive in the increasingly changing environment. Invasive species directly competes for food with the native species and can also alter the structure of the habitat.
8. Vegetation Removal and Logging
Vegetation removal and logging destroy the structure of the habitat since it takes away the vital materials and natural systems responsible for replenishing and purifying the habitat. Removal of vegetation cover and logging also creates room for soil erosion and decrease stormwater infiltration which leads to the degradation of water quality, further destroying the habitat.
9. Dredging and Bottom Trawling Fishing
Dredging and bottom trawling fishing gives rise to the physical destruction of the dwelling, feeding and breeding areas for aquatic plants and animals. The displaced sediments may further smother the bottom dwelling organisms. Fish gills can as well become blocked with sediments and plant life activity is reduced due to limited light.
Dredging might also release underground toxic materials into aquatic habitats. Besides, bottom trawling fishing can by-catch unmarketable fish which turns out to be the food for other bigger fish in that particular underwater habitats.
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The greater sand plover (Charadrius leschenaultii) is a small wader in the plover family of birds.
It breeds in the semi-deserts of Turkey and eastwards through Central Asia. It nests in a bare ground scrape. This species is strongly migratory, wintering on sandy beaches in East Africa, South Asia and Australasia. It is a rare vagrant in western Europe, where it has been recorded as far west as Great Britain, France and Iceland. It has been spotted twice in North America, the most recent being on May 14, 2009, in Jacksonville, Florida.
This species is fully migratory, and is likely to migrate without stopping on a broad front between breeding and non-breeding areas . Migratory flocks form after the end of breeding between mid-June and early-August, and arrive in the wintering grounds between mid-July and November (adults and immature birds arriving before juveniles. Those birds wintering in South-East Asia start moving northwards to the breeding grounds in late-February (the migration peaking in March to early-April), arriving from mid-March to May; whereas those wintering in East Africa and southern Asia depart for breeding grounds from mid-April to early-May. Most non-adult wintering birds remain in the wintering areas during the breeding season . The species is typically gregarious, feeding in flocks of 2-50, and sometimes congregating in groups of up to 1,000 when roosting (Urban et al. 1986, del Hoyo et al. 1996). Habitat Breeding During the breeding season this species is predominantly found in open, dry, treeless, uncultivated areas up to 3,000 m , including dried mud, silt and clay flats, hard salt-pans overgrown with halophytic plants , and rocky plains near mountains in desert or semi-desert . In Turkey the species frequents heavily grazed saline steppe . The species usually breeds near water but exceptionally it will nest up to 20 km away from it. Non-breeding During the non-breeding season this species shows a preference for littoral habitats with mixed sand and mud substrata . It is found on sheltered sandy, shelly or muddy beaches, large intertidal mudflats, sandbanks, salt-marshes, estuaries, coral reefs, rocky islands, tidal lagoons and dunes near the coast , although it may sometimes feed on coastal grasslands . Whilst on migration the species will occasionally utilise inland habitats such as salt-lakes and brackish swamps, usually roosting on sandbanks and spits . Diet This species is carnivorous: during the breeding season its diet consists mainly of terrestrial insects and their larvae (especially beetles, termites, midges and ants), and occasionally lizards whereas during the non-breeding season its diet contains mainly marine invertebrates such as molluscs (snails), worms and crustaceans (such as shrimps and crabs). Breeding site The nest is a shallow scrape on the ground amongst sand-hills, gravel, or on other barren substrates.
Team mates try to console Ne-Lok when he proves to be a sore loser after his first time as goalie in a game of Tarave, ends in a 1-nil loss.
Been wanting to do this shoot for a while now, today was 'warm' enough to do it. Well done Marian for braving the freezing water! This is quite a romantic and nostalgic idea...underlining the fact that loosing the perceptions of childhood is a bad idea! ;)
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Loss or Win?
HKD
Falls Psychologie interessiert::
Thema: Versager – Verlierer
Psychologische Ebene – mystische Ebene.
Spekulationen über die Unterschiede zwischen Versagen und Entsagen.
Als ich als junger Mann einen Kursus in französischer Sprache abbrach, weil mein innerer Antrieb nicht ausreichte, Vokabeln zu lernen, fühlte ich mich als Versager. Ich bestrafte mich damit, auf einen Urlaub zu verzichten. Dem Vergnügen zu entsagen fiel mir nicht leicht, doch gelegentlich machte ich ernsthafte Versuche, mich zu disziplinieren.
Ich bin von Natur aus ein Chaot und habe Schwierigkeiten mit Disziplin und Ordnung. Dennoch sehe ich den Sinn in diesen Kräften und rebelliere daher nicht wirklich gegen Strukturen und Hierarchien. Allerdings bin ich ein Kämpfer für die Freiheit des Individuums, wobei ich die Freiheit von den Ketten der inneren Unbewusstheit meine.
Äußere Gegebenheiten und körperliche Freiheit sind ein Thema, welches auf der Alltagsebene eine große Bedeutung hat. Psychologische Freiheit ist die Fähigkeit, einen bewussten Umgang mit seinen Emotionen zu finden und sich von seinen Süchten und Neurosen zu emanzipieren. Und auf der mystischen Ebene des Bewusstseins geht es um den Einsatz wirksamer Maßnahmen, um im meditativen, herzlichen und bewussten Geisteszustand verweilen zu können.
Daher unterscheide ich grundsätzlich drei Ebenen bezüglich den geistigen und körperlichen Interessen. Die Alltagsebene des Bewusstseins ist auf den materiellen Bereich fokussiert. Man kümmert sich um Handel, Wandel, Familie und Politik. Die psychologische Ebene ruft ein starkes Interesse an Selbsterforschung hervor. Die mystische Ebene setzt die gewonnene Selbsterkenntnis in die Praxis um.
Wenn Versagen und Entsagen aus der mystischen Perspektive beleuchtet werden, ändert sich die Einstellung zu den Worten. Versagen hat dann nichts mehr mit Schimpf und Schande zu tun, vielmehr erkennt der höhere Überblick über das Leben, dass man sich (zum Beispiel durch unbewusste Entscheidungen) den Erfolg in bestimmten Bereichen versagt.
Das Versagen wird deutlich, wenn Bemühungen, die aufgrund gesellschaftlicher Anpassung vorgenommen werden, scheitern. Und sie scheitern, weil ein Erfolg auf dieser Ebene in die falsche Richtung führen würde.
Sollte der mystische Zustand das Ziel der langen Lebensreise sein, wird das junge Ego sehr schnell erfolgreich sein und sehr schnell scheitern. Langfristiger Erfolg führt zu bestimmten Lebensverhältnissen, daher wird das Versagen immer dort auftauchen, wo sich das Ego aufbauen oder festklammern könnte.
Wo das Ich im Alltag versagt, hat die Seele entsagt. Die Seele oder der Wesenskern, weiß, warum er einer bestimmten Beziehung die Fortdauer versagt. Gescheiterte Beziehungen entstehen durch das wertende Bewusstsein, durch das Ego. Sein kurzfristiger Blick hat keinen Überblick über die Notwendigkeit des Wandels. Das kann sich wandeln.
Heute bin ich mir sehr bewusst darüber, warum bestimmte Projekte in meinem Leben scheiterten. Auch das Projekt, Französisch zu lernen. Auch gewisse Verhältnisse, ob freundschaftliche oder Arbeitsverhältnisse.
Die Demontage des Ego-Bewusstseins reiht während einer gewissen Phase im Leben ein Scheitern an das nächste. Doch was als Verlust und Demütigung erfahren wird, bezieht sich auf die Ansprüche und Vorstellungen des Egos. Das Ego möchte in der Alltagswelt erfolgreich sein und gewinnen. Ist es das, und bleibt es das, kann es diese Ebene nicht mehr ohne ein bremsendes Ereignis (Schicksalsschlag) verlassen.
Erfolg verblendet, jedoch nur auf der Alltagsebene und der psychologischen. Erfolg führt zu verstärkten Aktivitäten im Alltag und bindet das Bewusstsein daran. Das heißt, die Inhalte des Bewusstseins werden laufend durch äußere Ereignisse bestimmt. In der Regel hat man viel zu tun, wenn man erfolgreich ist.
Der Mann am Wasser dagegen hat nicht viel zu tun. Das ist sein größter Erfolg: Freiheit. Er darf einfach nur da sein. Er erwartet nichts und es wird nichts von ihm erwartet. Er hat sein Leben vereinfacht. Sobald der Impuls kommt, dreht er sich um und geht nach Hause. Und vielleicht besucht er auf dem Weg noch die Hühner im Stall.
Die Ebene des Alltags ist für ihn die mystische geworden. Erfolg und Misserfolg sind verschwunden. Handlungen geschehen aus dem Augenblick heraus. Erfolgreiche. Gelegentlich spiegelt sich das auf der Alltagsebene. Die psychologische Sicht hat die Gefahren des Ego-Stolzes (Sünde) erkannt und nährt ihn daher nicht. Sich stark entwickelnder und unbewusst bleibender Stolz ist Gift für den mystischen Bewusstseinszustand.
Stolz ist eine Motivationskraft, die blitzschnell auftauchen kann. Nationalstolz bricht hervor bei jedem neuen Sieg der deutschen Fußballnationalmannschaft. Stolz auf die Familientradition, Stolz auf die eigenen Leistungen, überall taucht die Energie auf und verdunkelt den Geist, natürlich nur aus der mystischen Sicht.
Auf der Alltagsebene ist Stolz eine ganz natürliche Sache, selbst der Umstand, dass ehrgeizige Kämpfe durch ihn entbrennen, liegt völlig in der Ordnung der Dinge. Ehrgeiz und Stolz sind mächtige Antriebsfedern und ein guter Coach weiß, wie er seine Mannschaft anfeuern kann: Indem er sie bei der Ehre packt.
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HKD
Digital Art – own resources
HKD
Another take I didn't use for the 'Emotions' week. It's taken in a church, and the pews are burning.
In Innsmouth.
Thanks to Trisste's brushes for the flames!
Wild - at Pantanal - MS - The Hyacinth Macaw is the largest parrot in the world and easily one of the most spectacular. It is an enormous bird weighing on average 1.5 kilograms (3.5 pounds) and is completely blue save its dark bill and bare yellow orbital ring and stripe at base of its lower mandible. It is completely dependent on the fruits of a number of palm species and has a necessarily massive bill to aid in the cracking of the tough exterior. Due to its dependence on palm fruit its range is regulated by the presence and abundance of its preferred species and is distributed in north central and south central Brazil into extreme north west Paraguay where it can be found in palm savannas, Mauritia palm stands, open dry woodland, gallery forest and the edge of humid lowland forest.
This species was reduced to an estimated 3000 birds by massive illegal trade in the period 1970–1990, with possibly as many as 10,000 being taken from the wild in the 1980s alone. In 1987 the species was placed on Appendix I of CITES, but for a time this only stimulated greater demand. Now reduced to three isolated populations in E Amazonia, the Gerais and the Pantanal, Brazil, with marginal occurrence in Bolivia and perhaps Paraguay. Stronghold is the Pantanal, where its range has expanded and population has shown signs of recovery since 1990 (2), probably as a result of conservation projects. In contrast, those of E Amazonia and the Gerais have continued to decline, from an estimated 1500 individuals in 1986 to 1000 in 2003. No hard population data, but total population estimated at 6500 individuals (equivalent to 4300 mature birds) in 2003, of which 5000 were in the Pantanal and around 200 in Bolivia (3). In the 1990s several long-term studies of the species started, in part coupled with conservation initiatives, often involving ecotourism, environmental education and nest-box deployment, at certain ranches in the Pantanal. However, local trapping for feathers and food may persist, as well as destruction of nest-sites either for farming or to obtain birds, and indeed general habitat loss throughout the species's range continues to decrease its survival prospects. Uplisted to Endangered in 2000 because the population has decreased very rapidly in the recent past and the threats from habitat loss and illegal trapping for the cagebird trade remain (4); downlisted to Vulnerable in 2014 because population declines had not been as rapid as feared BirdLife International (2014) Species factsheet: Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus. Collar, N., P. F. D. Boesman, and C. J. Sharpe (2020). Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. doi.org/10.2173/bow.hyamac1.01
Moreover, in the last 3 years, the species population has decreased even more due to the fires and environmental destruction. Thus, it is a real blessing to find them in the wild.
Have a peaceful Wednesday - HBW.
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Have you ever feel very excited about shooting, and then super excited about working on those photos, and then feeling sooo frustrated and then feel like you've just created a magnificent piece of crap but then you feel super excited again and finally feel really satisfied for what you have done?
Well, I have.
The river "Dinkel" has completely burst its banks.
This is in the area of Losser near the German border.
Model: Miss Olesya.
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after the loss of our 17 year old black cat in December, we found and adopted Nessie...a sweet black monster to complement our 2 boys, Frankenstein and Igor...
What a month it has been!! I've had really awesome opportunities lately to do work for Microsoft (I made 60 images for them in one day, it was insane!) and I'll be speaking for a couple other interesting companies, too. It's honestly been madness over here as we try to settle from moving, I've been traveling left and right, I've got deadlines upon deadlines, emails upon emails, and I'm attempting to start a new business in the midst of it.
But life has been deeply good lately. I've been bursting into tears at all the happy things happening around me, from greeting cards to Star Trek, so that's how I know I'm peak happy right now. How are you?
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Beauty lies within the eyes of the beholder. You are the beholder.
Collaboration with the beautiful eva, titled "Innocence". Too see her interpretation click here.
I wanted to stray away from the initial thought of Innocence and interpret this into a 'loss of innocence'.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Own camera tools (for camera control), in-game photomode (for timestop), Reshade (CinematicDOF, deband), SRWE.
Silver drops on ivy
Whistling wind wildly
Heart shaped leaves remind me
Sadness passes nightly
Rays creep in lightly
Illuminate the sky widely
Silver drops slide quietly, they remind me
Joy returns..
Brightly
Poem ~ Nefise Hussein
Reproduction: A nest of rushes or grass is made inside the burrow. Breeding usually starts in March and can last well into September/October, depending what the temperatures are like. After a gestation period of 20 - 22 days, the female gives birth .Two to four litters of usually less than six young in each are produced a year. The young when born are hairless and helpless with a weight of approximately 4 - 5 grammes The young grow coats within five days and by their eighth day, their eyes have opened. They grow quite fast and are weaned in 10 - 14 days.
Voles; have many enemies, including mink, weasels, cats, foxes, pike, owls and other birds of prey, and adders. Although reproduction numbers are high, due to habitat loss and heavy predation, 70% of water voles don’t survive through to winter. They have very short lives, from 5 months up to three years in the wild and five years in captivity.
This photo is also in Swatch Book with Woodland Trust and is in the Book Poos and Clues They see my photo on Flickr and asked me if they could use it in there Book and it is in there showing there Burrow and they also sent me a copy of the Book
... the overpowering sense of isolation felt and needed when faced with the loss of a loved one.
The silhouette is from an image dating back to 2015 of someone alone at the edge of a pier shrouded in fog and whom later on I found out she was grieving the sudden loss of a close friend.
As with all my work, all images used are my own.