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One of the privileges of my job is to see many interesting places in Europe and beyond. Unfortunately schedules are mainly very tight and there is no time to make use of the camera. This week I had a couple of appointments in Belgium in the Province of Oost Vlaanderen. A business partner showed me around in Gent, besides Bruges the second pearl of the area. I enjoyed a great time in this beautiful city.
Sunny days above the fog and grey 'soup' below. Looking at the sea of fog is always a special view, with mountains and trees becoming islands. In the evening sun sometimes the sea can get a yellow or orange tone.
Crupet is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Assesse, located in the province of Namur, Belgium.
Until 1977, it was itself a municipality.
It is a member of the organisation Les Plus Beaux Villages de Wallonie (French; in English: Most Beautiful Villages in Wallonia).
The Castle of Crupet, a 13th Century medieval farm-chateau is situated below the village centre, and a little to the north, next to the river.
Hoodoos take millions of years to form and stand 5 to 7 metres tall. Each hoodoo is a sandstone pillar resting on a thick base of shale that is capped by a large stone. Hoodoos are very fragile and can erode completely if their capstone is dislodged (in other words, no climbing allowed). The protected Hoodoos site is a guaranteed spot to see Hoodoos but smaller versions of these sandstone giants can be found all over the Badlands.
(From: www.canadianbadlands.com/attraction-details.jsp?id=21)
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I just love this picture because it represents so well the richness of the Atlantic Rain Forest in a single branch... The marvelous Red-necked Tanager (female), the liquens, the fern, all so full of life... Unfortunately there is less than 5% of the original Atlantic Rain Forest and it is always under threat for numerous reasons. We must protect this delicate and fragile environment.
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Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.
The city suffered a series of earthquakes between September 2010 and January 2012, with the most destructive of them occurring on 22 February 2011, in which 185 people were killed and thousands of buildings across the city collapsed or suffered severe damage. By late 2013, 1,500 buildings in the city had been demolished, leading to ongoing recovery and rebuilding projects across the city.
The Rock of Cashel, also known as Cashel of the Kings and St. Patrick's Rock, is an historical site located at Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland. According to local legends, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 20 miles (30 km) north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel
Oh, me LOVE cookie!
om nom nom.
Me love lots of cookies!
om nom nom.
Me in bath. EATING COOKIE!!
om nom nom.
Strobist: 580EX into ceiling @ 1/2, camera left. om nom nom.
COOKIE COOKIE COOKIE START WITH C!
UPDATE:
thanks for all the positive comments everyone. also, further thanks to whoever put this on digg.com and reddit.com. to you new visitors, this is part of my 52 week self portrait challenge. i'm trying to keep it new and interesting so remember, if you ain't got anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. nothing lamer than going around the internet bitching anonymously! :)
in response to the number of cookies, believe it or not, it's just 1 small plate of cookies (about 15 of them), about 60 photos and a hell of a lot of photoshop. imagine if i did actually have this many cookies, that'd be awesome!!!
oh yeah since you're already here, you can check out my website, www.mulletgod.org :)
The three rocks are named : Stella, Mezzo and Scopolo
Island of Capri, Naples, Italy
A Matt Fielding/Martin Creese photo charter of 12.10.2012 on the Severn Valley Railway with Southern Region engines, U1 and T9 putting on a wonderful display of power.
Flowers: clusters of white or pink flowers appear from late spring to early summer. They are 2–3cm in diameter with five petals and many stamens. Fruits/seeds: the fruit, known as a blackberry, is 1–2cm in length and ripens from green through red, to deep purple and finally black when ripe in late July.
Reflections in the Singelgracht (canal) of The Kingdom of Holland. This was taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands. #Amsterdam #TheKingdomOfHolland #Netherlands #SingelgrachtCanal
Well, and after the creation of the island, people came to it and started building houses and villages with their churches.
The sea was their friend, but at the same time their enemy because on the one hand they provided a source of income through fishing, but on the other hand the sea had its terrible quirks and she could rage like a raging rage and devourded houses, villages in short everything what got in her way and therefore also people.
And in order to avoid the seething desolation of the sea, dikes were always built higher, higher and higher, so that you no longer see the villages from the sea side, except for a small part of the church tower........
CIRCLES OF LIFE
Everything
Turns,
Rotates,
Spins,
Circles,
Loops,
Pulsates,
Resonates,
And
Repeats.
Circles
Of life,
Born from
Pulses
Of light,
Vibrate
To
Breathe,
While
Spiraling
Outwards
For
Infinity
Through
The lens
Of time,
And into
A sea
Of stars
And
Lucid
Dreams.
Poem ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun
If you decide to travel along this highway into the bowels of the Universe, carry enough fuel to cover the billions of light years ahead of you. You won't find a place to refuel. When you have travelled this distance without finding anything, not even a little bit of intelligent life and you reach the far reaches of the Universe... don't be scared... there's nothing there, either. Only the "nothing". Or since everything is cyclical, perhaps you have returned to the place where you started, full of wisdom from your long trip. It's probably better to look for intelligent life on Earth, but it's also very likely that you'll have a hard time finding it. Don't worry about not understanding the Universe or the reason for its existence... you're not Einstein, but one day you'll understand that... The Universe is wounded, but it still has infinity ahead of it. It still has you and me. Merry Christmas to all and to the infinite Universe that is within you.
Gregory Alan Isakov - The Universe
Y el Universo está susurrando tan suavemente que puedo oírlo todo... el zumbido de los insectos, todos los taxis, todo el cambio gastado de los vagabundos, todos los chicos jugando a la pelota en los callejones. Son sólo pliegues en su vestido. El Universo, está herido, pero aún tiene el infinito por delante. Todavía nos tiene a ti y a mí. Y todos dicen que es hermoso. Y todos dicen...
Image dédiée à Pat. Joyeux Noël. Bisou, jolie.
..........
Music for your trip to the Universe:
Ground Control to Major Tom. Ground Control to Major Tom. Take your protein pills and put your helmet on. Ground Control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven, six)... Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three)... Check ignition and may God's love be with you (two, one, liftoff...)
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts VI–IX
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond", was written as a tribute to Syd Barrett, one of the founders of Pink Floyd. He was also known as "The Crazy Diamond Syd". Barrett was a very creative musician and is considered one of the rock icons, with a strong influence on many artists, very especially to David Bowie. Syd Barrett is a key piece to understand the evolution of rock in the 70s.. Excessive drug use, especially LSD, caused him serious mental health problems. Syd Barrett died in 2006 at the age of 60. Always shine diamond.
The Universal is a science fiction song written as a tribute to two films by film director Stanley Kubrick. In the video, the Blur members wear outfits similar to Alex and his gang of thugs, the protagonists of the movie "A Clockwork Orange." The image used for the cover of the single alluded to what is possibly Kubrick's best film: "2001: To Space Odyssey."
We haven't changed that much in 300,000 years of evolution.
Moby - We Are All Made of Stars
Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun
PS: Electronic - Can't Find My Way Home Just a recommendation. It is important to learn the road signs of the Universe... happy return.
PS: Ground Control to Major Tom. Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong. Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you...
"Here am I floating 'round my tin can, far above the moon. Planet Earth is blue. And there's nothing I can do" (Major Tom)
PS: Merry Christmas to all Flick(e)r users... and to the Universe full of crazy diamonds that shine... And Major Tom
Hidden in the yard
Underneath the wall
Buried deep below a thousand layers lay
The answer to it all
From the photo series "At the end of the end "
♫ The Flight of the Bumble-Bee ♫ - Cyprien Katsaris - Rimsky-Korsakov/Cziffra
Four-Leaf Clover
BY ELLA HIGGINSON
I know a place where the sun is like gold,
And the cherry blooms burst with snow,
And down underneath is the loveliest nook,
Where the four-leaf clovers grow.
One leaf is for hope, and one is for faith,
And one is for love, you know,
And God put another in for luck—
If you search, you will find where they grow.
But you must have hope, and you must have faith,
You must love and be strong – and so—
If you work, if you wait, you will find the place
Where the four-leaf clovers grow.
🍀🍀 Happy St. Patrick's Day 🍀🍀
“May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.”
Two images of my Bracteantha 'Fields Gold' daisy.
Native to Australia.
A Paper Daisy.
aka Xerochrysum Bracteata.
aka 'Everlasting Daisy'.
And you can get them at Bunnings, though not at the moment because it is Autumn.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 100mm f 2.8/L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
“Where you stand depends on where you sit.”
Nelson Mandela
Done with Windows Photo Editor (Snapseed)
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Addy and ♱Alfie
One of the greatest singers ever....
With another great singer:
"I knew you were waiting for me": (1987)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDxzQJaA228
Another great song:
I say a little prayer:
Kuznetsky Most is one of the most beautiful pedestrian streets in the historical center of Moscow.
The street got its modern - and at the same time historical - name thanks to the Kuznetsky Bridge across the Neglinnaya River. Today, Kuznetsky Most Street attracts citizens with its high-quality landscaping, an abundance of architectural monuments and an unusual relief: due to the significant difference in heights between Petrovka and Rozhdestvenka, the city landscape looks especially picturesque.
Kuznetskaya Sloboda on the high bank of the Neglinnaya River - Neglinnaya Upper - appeared in the 12th century, but its heyday came only at the end of the 15th, when the Cannon Yard was built in the vicinity, and the Moscow prince Ivan III ordered to settle in it blacksmiths and grooms who served new production. At the turn of the 15th-16th centuries, Novgorod and Pskov were annexed to the Moscow principality, and craftsmen of various professions from these cities were moved to the Neglinny Upper.
In 1737, the street burned out during the Trinity fire, but rather quickly new buildings were built on it, in which foreign shops began to be located. Gradually, the street turned into the abode of foreign trade: the French showed particular zeal, opening fashion and haberdashery shops here, thanks to which Kuznetsky Most became the main shopping street in Moscow. During World War II and the fire of 1812, it practically did not suffer from the fire, since the French guard took over the protection of the business of compatriots. After the war, trade flourished again, and many fashionable shops were opened on it (almost all of them were foreign, most of them were French). The abundance of foreign shops made Kuznetsky Most the most fashionable and aristocratic street in Moscow, which it remained until the 1917 Revolution.
During the Soviet era, the street lost part of the historical buildings, many buildings were rebuilt, and the street gradually took on a modern look.
After the reconstruction carried out in 2012, the Kuznetsky Most section from Bolshaya Dmitrovka to Rozhdestvenka became pedestrian.
Today Kuznetsky Most Street is a well-maintained pedestrian zone, where city holidays and festivals are often held.
Despite the losses of the Soviet years, a large number of architectural monuments have been preserved on it: tenement houses, partially preserved city estates and passages. Among them are famous Moscow sights: the building of the Moscow International Trade Bank, Khomyakov's trading house and others.
The sands of time. 💫
This old idiom was first published in 1832 by a dude with a wicked surname.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us,
Footprints on the sands of time. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. .
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From the top, an impressive plateau, it is possible to contemplate the entire city of Rio and its surroundings – it is possible to see the Sugar Loaf, Christ the Redeemer, the beaches of Copacabana, Ipanema, São Conrado and Barra da Tijuca, and even the mountains of Serra of the Organs. It's an unforgettable sight!
PS. Me being photographed by one of my guides, Marcelo Kastrup (Adrena Rio).
A metal printers block (well the face you can see is the rest is wood) shot on the metal lid of my MacBook.
HCT!
Gatehouse & Boathouse at Loch of Skene. Brilliant design complete with Portcullis.
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Years have passed since that day that marked my life .......
this shot reminds me of that moment
I work for a Piaggio dealer ;) ;)
This box was my Mom's full of memories of my Dad (1911-1978) from a child to WW II with letters, pictures, bible from his Mom when he went to the war and metals.
Smile on Saturday.
Full of Memories.
Rays of light break through the clouds and haze from the Sprague Fire on the east side of Glacier NP at Two Medicine Lake.
Hint of hummingbird at bee balm. In monochrome.
Fiddling with curves and high key. Experimenting. Thanks for looking!
(Sheltering at home. Crazed president. Be careful, please!)
After all the excitement of the last two days, with all the falling water, we're going to take a break today. We go back to my first morning here in Slovenia at Lake Bled.
Can you still remember the photo when I stood on top of the mountain and waited in vain for the sunrise, but the sun couldn't be seen because of all the fog? Well, that statement wasn't entirely accurate.
There was a brief magical moment. The sun could not be seen from my position at all. And yet somehow the sun rays managed to penetrate the fog and bathed the water behind the island in a golden light for a few minutes.
Of course it would have been perfect if this spot had been right on the island, but there is no such thing as perfection in nature, everything is perfect there anyway. And so it is important to be thankful for what we have been given.
For my part, I am extremely happy and grateful that I was able to be there.
Nach der ganzen Aufregung der letzten zwei Tage, mit all den herabstürzenden Wassermassen, legen wir heute mal eine Entspannungspause ein. Wir gehen zurück zu meinem ersten Morgen hier in Slowenien am Bleder See.
Könnt Ihr Euch noch an das Foto erinnern, als ich oben auf dem Berg stand und vergeblich auf den Sonnenaufgang gewartet habe, doch die Sonne wegen dem ganzen Nebel nicht zu sehen war ? Nun, diese Aussage war so nicht ganz korrekt.
Es gab einen kurzen magischen Moment. Die Sonne war von meinem Standpunkt aus kein bisschen zu sehen. Und doch schaffte Sie es irgendwie den Nebel zu durchdringen und tauchte für wenige Minuten das Wasser hinter der Insel in ein goldenes Licht.
Es wäre natürlich perfekt gewesen, wenn dieser Spot direkt auf der Insel gelegen hätte doch in der Natur gibt es keine Perfektion, da ist alles vollkommen. Und so gilt es dankbar zu sein, für das, was man geschenkt bekommt.
Ich für meinen Teil bin überaus glücklich und dankbar, dass ich da dabei sein durfte.
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Arithmophobia or Numerophobia is the exaggerated, constant and often irrational fear of numbers. The words Arithmophobia and Numerophobia both have Latin/Greek origins where the root word stands for numbers, and phobos is Greek for “deep aversion or fear”.
The fear of numbers can place many restrictions on the phobic’s life and may even affect his standard of living. Specific number phobias like the fear of number 13 or 666 etc could be fuelled by cultural or religious beliefs or even TV shows and movies about them. She/he often feels embarrassed to admit the problem causing one to become socially withdrawn. Hereditary, genetic factors and brain chemistry can sometimes lead to this phobia.
Macro Mondays -- "Phobia"