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Eurasian Nuthatch / sitta europaea. Calke Park, Derbyshire. 16/03/20.
An image made just before the first Corvid_19 Lockdown - and the last time I sat in a hide.
There were three Nuthatches visiting a feeding station and showing extremely well that day. I think they consisted of an established pair, plus an outsider, (either an adult or first year bird). Lots of interesting behaviours and calls I seem to remember, ranging from some courtship through to threat displays and pursuit flights. The approaching breeding season seemed at the forefront of the birds' minds.
Old cemetery located on Route 95/Mt. Gilead Road near Chesterville, Ohio in rural Central Ohio. The gnarly weathered trees in this cemetery captured my attention. This is farm country. It is amazingly beautiful in the springtime. Watch for some old barn pictures in the near future.
I have always liked this:
"Spring passes, and one remembers one's innocence,
Summer passes, and one remembers one's exuberance,
Autumn passes, and one remembers one's reverence,
Winter passes, and one remembers one's perseverance"
--Yoko Ono
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The olive trees that captivated the famous Spanish poet Antonio Machado come from a variety that was cultivated in Palestine 6,000 years ago. This species spread West throughout the Mediterranean thanks to the Phoenicians, the Etruscans, the Greeks and the Romans. It is believed that they started to be cultivated in the Iberian Peninsula some 4,000 years ago.
The region of Maestrat. La Salzadella (Castellón/Spain).
Romantica visione di una via tra le più suggestive e panoramiche dei Colli Euganei
Romantic view of a street among the most evocative and panoramic Euganeanhills
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta I B (532/16)
Lens: Zeiss-Opton Tessar f/2.8 80 mm
Film: Ilford HP5 Plus 400
Exposure: 1/100 sec and f/16, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
Meanwhile, this camera has been repaired and CLAd by the well-known folder expert Jurgen Kreckel (certo6.com/). Jurgen did a great job: the camera is working like new. The contact with him is always very pleasing. He did the job rapidly and for a very fair price. The photographers using vintage folders (rather than collecting them) can be thankful for his excellent service!
This is my drawing for week 3 of Inktober. I used the ink pens in Autodesk Sketchbook for Android. She looks fairly harmless sitting (or is she floating) in that tree. But wait, is that red tree sap or something else?!?!
UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Nikon Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX
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~ Spanish Moss ~ Famous in Florida......
This set of images were taken in a remote park in Osceola County and is not widely known. I only saw about one third of it but you can bet I'll go back again.
Did I scare you, an old olive tree? Taken in Central Cyprus a while ago.
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All those things hanging from the tree are cloth cradles wishing for a child and the stones below are wishes for homes.
I scrambled up the steep rock slope to get behind this old, dead tree to use it as a foreground for the massive rock landscape leading up to the distant window in that massive white rock outcrop. It was not an easy climb for me, but I think it was worth the effort.
I considered calling this image "Red, White and Blue" in honor of the U.S. Independence Day, but decided the old dead tree represents a life's end and maybe the high window represents a hight point in life with the downslope followed by the upslope representing life's undulations.
Around lunch time and the owners of the bikes had stopped under the big old trees
for a short nap leaving their bikes free to do the same...
This is a side street with a lot of small eateries and after lunch there were many more than the bikers snoozing away in the shade.
A beautiful Russian girl with seductive, silky blonde hair is posing in sexy white lingerie with white roses in hand on a smooth green lawn.
My wee pal Jackson out and about in Dalkieth Country Park in Midlothian. I've been walking my friends Spaniel Jackson of late, often in the woodlands at the park. He's probably wondering why there is a tree in front of the doorway though lol.
"harappa " combination of ruined and old trees"
In the village of Harappa (in modern day Pakistan) there was a very old ruined castle built on a hill. Nobody knew who had lived there but local legend said that it had been the home of an evil Rajah (a kind of king), who had been punished by the gods for the bad things he did, by a huge fire that burned down his castle. The ruins had stood for hundreds of years and children used to play on them. Whenever visitors came they were shown the ruins. In 1826 an English visitor called Charles Masson saw the ruins. Some years later another visitor, an archaeologist named Sir Alexander Cunningham, visited Harappa, but the ruins had been knocked down and all that was left was a huge mound of stones and rubble. Four hundred miles away from Harappa was a large area of ruined brick mounds. The people who lived nearby thought that it was a very old burial site, and called it Mohenjo-daro or 'Mound of the Dead'. Historians used to think that the oldest cities in India and Pakistan were built in 500BCE.
Charles Masson was an English traveler who visited North West India in 1823. He wrote about the things he saw: 'In Harappa a ruined brick castle with very high walls and towers, built on a hill'. In 1853 Sir Alexander Cunningham went to study the ruins in Harappa. The buildings had been completely knocked down, but he looked very carefully through everything he could see. He found some small square stones that were very polished. They had engravings of animals and designs that no-one in India had found before. In the 1920s R D Banerji found polished stone seals just like the ones at Harappa. He was excavating at Mohenjo-daro, which was miles away near the Indus River. He found these seals in the remains of a large city and it was at least 3500 years old.
Since these early excavations more and more archaeological work has been done in the Indus valley area. Thousands of settlements and some cities have been found. They all have the stone seals and artifacts just like the ones at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro.
When the British ruled India they built railways to make their lives easier. An engineer called Robert Brunton ordered workers to knock down some old walls and empty buildings. They laid the railway tracks on the stones. In 1921 the Indian government paid an archaeologist named Daya Ram Sahni, to find out more about Harappa. A trench was dug along the top of a mound. In the bottom were lots more of the stone seals like the ones Sir Alexander had found. Mr. Sahni dug further down and found seven or eight layers of houses, one on top of the other. It was an enormous city. It was also a very old city, from about 2500 BCE. This meant that it was as old as the pyramids in Egypt. The cities at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro had streets, baths and storage for grain. In the houses archaeologists found gold and silver objects, toys made from stone and jewelry made from precious stones. Nobody knows much about the people who lived in the Indus valley 4500 years ago, but we do know they were some of the first people on earth to live in cities.
an old dying and decaying ash tree, (fraxinus excelsior) prophers-some of it's woodland wisdom and advice, on to a naturaly regenerated young beech tree sapling (fagus sylvatica) starting out on it's long woodland journey of life, in the clear felled wood on the top of the whitshiels banking. langholm, dumfriesshire, scotland. view large
This is another huge tree by our public library, and it feels like it's old and wise because of all the books it oversees. Snapped with phone, it has a lot of flaws if you pixel peep, and I was tempted to turn it into mono because of that, but I like the blue and green. #89/366. Still filling holes in my uploads!
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A beautiful Russian girl with seductive, silky blonde hair is posing in sexy white lingerie with white roses in hand on a smooth green lawn.
Two contrasting seasonal photos of the old tree at Moorfoot and the track that leads into the Moorfoot Hills. I caught the shepherd and his wife taking the dogs..(5 Collies & 2 Jack Russells) out towards the hills for a walk one evening. Two of the collies hitched a lift on the quad bike lol.
Taken in Wilsons Prom national park in southern Victoria, Australia in December 2008, before the brush fire of early 2009.
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Ikonta B (521/16)
Lens: Novar Anastigmat f/3.5 7.5 cm
Film: Kodak Tri-X 400
Exposure: 1/100 sec and f/11, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
This little bog in central Maine often has some nice color during the autumn season. Please also visit: www.acadiamagic.com/.
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