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One of the places I used to visit as a kid with my grandparents. It has changed a great deal now all the trees have grown over it. This is straight out of the camera, except for the framing.
Almost one year ago today I took this picture on the border of Bahrain with Saudi Arabia...had I known then that I would be leaving my world and life behind to move to the US, I would not have believed it and yet, here I am, with this memory of that day impressed on my mind. These reflections are my reflections of what a difference a year makes. (no photoshop by the way)
EXPLORE #282 of 9 March 2010
I took a number of photos of this little boy when we were travelling through the Atlas Mountains six years ago.. For some reason I keep going back to them. That he is alone suggests confidence but also a sense of lonliness. His clothes are too big and his game of hula-hoop struck me as endearing because it was so far removed from the plastic fast and ready toys we see everywhere in our society.
I wander what has become of him..
Here's to the ones that we got
Cheers to the wish you were here, but you're not
'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories
Of everything we've been through
Toast to the ones here today
Toast to the ones that we lost on the way
'Cause the drinks bring back all the memories
And the memories bring back, memories bring back you
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Rolduc Abbey.
Rolduc abbey in Kerkrade is one of the most important religious monuments in the Netherlands. Rolduc is the largest abbey complex in the Benelux and one of the Dutch UNESCO Top 100 monuments.
For 35 years the buildings remained empty. In 1831, Rolduc Abbey was recommissioned by the Diocese of Liège for use as a seminary, a college training teenage boys for priesthood. After Belgium’s independence, this seminary moved to St. Truiden in Belgium and Rolduc Abbey was taken over by the Diocese of Roermond. Rolduc became a boarding school and grammar school (Gymnasium) for boys from Dutch wealthy families, among them several well-known politicians, scientists and writers of that time. From 1946 until 1967, Rolduc was once more a minor seminary, only now for the Diocese of Roermond. The boarding school closed in 1971; the Gymnasium closed in 2011.
*Source: Rolduc*
Clockwise from the top left
1. Ultimate Frisbee
2. Spaghetti Dinner at the Ferry's
3. The President and Vice President of the Jeret Fan Club.
4. Group Shot at our last Meet
Feliz quinta flower ! Happy Thursday flower!!
Explored:)
Highest position: 22 on Thursday, November 24, 2011
Many thanks to all my friends:)
I took a stroll down Memory Lane
To all our yesterdays again,
In and out of streets I paced
Until i came upon this place
I sat and thought for many hours
Thinking about the days gone by
Then i stood, took one more glance
As the sunset itself to bed
I smiled and thought
Memories are made of these.
..."i'm cutting branches from the trees
shaped by years of memories
to exorcise their ghosts from inside of me
the sound of waves in a pool of water
i'm drowning in my nostalgia"...
Nostalgia
-David Sylvian
Old picture of Li and Kai never uploaded cause it was too similar to another one I posted. This was before Kai got his chest and neck tattooed and Li her calavera makeup.
I really love this photo, its one of my faves of them together. ♥
Hope you are had a great weekend, last one of the year! ;))
♥ Thanks for visiting!
explore # 432 November 24/2008
All of my memories keep you near.
In silent moments,
Imagine you'd be here.
All of my memories keep you near,
In silent whispers, silent tears.....
wood lilies on the prairie..,.upper souris wildlife refuge..North Dakota.. vivitar 90mm f2.5 macro lens..also known as the bokina because of its bokeh qualities
Sunset across Aberlady Bay, East Lothian, Scotland, UK.
So, it's been a bit of traumatic time of late for me on the photographic front. A couple of weeks ago I was in British Columbia but exactly one week before I left I was down on the beach at home photographing a heavy sea when I was taken out by a wave. As a result of that one of my two K30's was destroyed, along with my Sigma 10-20mm and Sigma 17-50mm lenses. I loved my K30 and the Sigma 10-20 is what I shoot 90% of my shots with, so all in all it was a bit heart breaking. My second K30 also got a bit wet but survived.
So at v short notice I had to suddenly replace a body and I went for what I thought was the natural replacement the K-S2, which didn't turn out to be the natural replacement I thought it would be. (More on that below)
Anyway, the new K-S2 arrived along with a new Sigma 10-20mm and off I went on holiday.
Now I don't take a lot of photographs with my cell phone but it is useful to have to photograph all sorts of daily things, like where you've parked your car etc. So it was further disappointment when on the second day of my holiday the lens shattered on the phone for no obvious reason.
To cheer myself up I thought I'd go out and take a city skyline shot over Vancouver, only to discover that the head on my Manfrotto BeFree Travel Tripod had broken... (although it was still partially useable)... Anyway trying to put all of this aside I set up for some long exposures over the city skyline. I took out my long exposure cable release and went to plug it in to my new K-S2... nope that's not the socket... not that one either.. and not that one... where the heck is the cable release socket... don't tell me! So to my horror I discovered that this camera doesn't have a cable release socket.... and a significant amount of my photography involves long exposure work... I never even knew cameras came without what I would class as this vital piece of functionality. I've certainly never had a Pentax camera that didn't have this.
It has to be said that by now I was a bit down and a bit irate about all of this. The next morning I got up put my gear in the car, took out my remaining K30 to check the settings were ready to go for the start of the day and I dropped the camera and broke the LCD screen..... aargh!!