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Over optimistic lights, Vines Winebar isn’t going to open anytime soon unless the world spins a little faster on its axis and COVID-19 evaporates.
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molto, molto, molto impegnato con attività edili “minori”, che mi rubano tutto il tempo per flickr...
very very busy in minor building activities, and I have no time for flickr, sorry…
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Lo splendore di Firenze, unito ad una luce speciale, mi fanno sentire molto ottimista. Sempre e comunque.
Grazie per tutti i gentili commenti alle mie ultime foto!
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Florence’s charme, combined with a special light, makes me feel very optimistic. Always and anyway.
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Nature's confetti, showering lives with soft petals, each a reminder that joy can bloom even in the prickliest of patches.
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Restaurant in Reykjavík. It was nighttime, in November, so not even smokers were sitting outside. Some interesting items on the menu, if you zoom in. Traditional Plokkari, anyone?
I'm optimistic that this will clean up nicely, very nicely in fact! It looks good underneath and I cannot wait to clean it.
In March the avenue of pleached limes at Mottisfont is carpeted by blue chionodoxa. Ray thought to take a few plants home for our garden.
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Well I’m back from a series of travels (Keswick, Pitlochry and Texas so hopefully I can be a bit more active on Flickr than I have over much of the year. My new mancave is complete and I ‘just’ need to kit it out with furniture and move my printer and computer in it then Mrs P is optimistic she won’t have me under her feet as much!
As a number of you know I normally have quite a backlog of editing and the last few weeks has only made this worse! Anyway, I’m not going to complain but please forgive my absence and lack of comments. I won’t say I’ll catch up but I will try to be on her a bit more regularly and I’ll ask for your understanding and forbearance. Retirement is hard work!!
Anyway, decided to skip Lakes & Scotland for a bit for my recent Texas trip. A number of you may know Sapna Reddy as she has a high profile in the photography world and has given up her white gown to go pro full time. I booked myself on her workshop in Caddo Lake, texas after seeing various photos of the cypress trees there. Now there will be a number of photos of those coming but I wanted to start off with something a bit different both in terms of what I shoot and the type of bird it is…..well for us in the UK it’s rather unusual.
As part of the workshop we had a number of boat trips out on the Bayou to shoot the trees and wildlife. ‘Unfortunately’ for much of the time the weather was too good so the light became harsh really quickly after sunrise and stayed harsh until just a few mins before sunset. However, that did mean we went searching for wildlife and seeing a Bald Eagle is something that I think will stay with me forever. Initially it was perched in a tree obviously watching for food and Togs on boats so eventually it thought it would give us some excitement and flew between trees. I was lucky enough to have my 100-500mm lens on and hit the shutter button more in hope than expectation. I managed to get about 10 shots with the bird roughly in focus and decided this one with the wings outstretched and the light on it was the one to post.
It was shot at ISO 3200 so I have run it through DXO Pure Raw 4 and then the ON1 Photo Raw 2026 version of its Resize AI application. I know from some of the other workshop participants that they can take far better birds-in-flight shots but I’m pretty chuffed with it as it’s not my area of expertise and was shot from a moving boat.
More tales/shots to follow pardners!
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Hong Kong’s public hospitals are overwhelmed by the recent surge in coronavirus infections, which means residents who test positive for the virus have to wait a few days before being admitted.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that she is optimistic that at least 10,000 hotel rooms can be converted into isolation facilities for Covid patients who have no or mild symptoms. (20220216 RTHK news)
Yellow Branch Falls as she appeared on this bright, optimistic, sunny morning Feb 3, 2024. Even though her flow was low, I didn't mind. As for me, she never disappoints. Today I hiked down from above and completely understand why the former trail was decommissioned. It's far too dangerous of a descent for children, the elderly and people lacking hiking experience with careless tendencies. Compared with the existing trail, I found the former trail to be more of a "cut to the chase" excursion. (accepting for today's overgrown and "lack of" trail and the number of downed trees to maneuver over, through and around).The existing "new" trail today offers a beautiful array of mountain ridgeline views as the trail rises and falls along the way. Yellow Branch will always be uniquely special to me because it was one of the first waterfalls, I hiked to and photographed years ago. I have made many captures here and some with the waterfall full to overflowing. This morning, I had her all to myself for about 45 minutes. I hiked back out on the existing trail and met many people hiking in. No doubt, I'll be back many more times. It was such a great beginning for my new 2024 year of adventure hiking to waterfalls🍷🍷💙
A tour guide told us that Acadia was once all evergreens, but a great and devastating fire cut through the area in 1947. On the bare and scorched patches of land, colorful trees began to grow in, creating the park's now famous Fall foliage.
Eagle Lake, Acadia National Park, Maine
Just to finish on more optimistic note;-)
Wish you all great eve!
My book on Blurb In the Tube is devoted to the London undergound and its commuters.
A Velvet-fronted Nuthatch (Sitta frontalis) was scanning for tiny insects under the lichen laden barks of trees. It was caught in the fast action moves against a gorgeous Bokeh backdrop on green . The colours of the bird, its eyes and beak just stand out against the backdrop so well. Pics was taken from Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, West Bengal, India.
This is one of many strategies tried by a cormorant to eat an eel. It was nearly a fatal mistake as just out of shot was a diving gull intent on stealing the eel but the cormorant was too quick for it.
Photographed in Olhão.
Soaring high above the Fraser River and tracing a razor-thin line along the rugged Coast Mountains, Rocky Mountaineer’s Rainforest to Gold Rush passenger train emerges from Gibbs Tunnel near Lillooet, British Columbia.
This spectacular stretch of railroad, once part of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (later BC Rail) empire connecting Vancouver’s coastal ports with the far reaches of the province’s interior, is devastatingly slated for abandonment. Like many scenic, low-density lines acquired by Canadian National, the Lillooet Subdivision faces a very uncertain future.
Believing the line’s fate to be all but sealed, I set out on an overnight, guerrilla-style mission from Calgary to capture the last run of the season I could before the 2025 season wraps up. Hopefully, 2026 will provide a few more opportunities to document this magnificent railroad, though I remain cautiously optimistic about what may come after that. For now, enjoy this view fuelled by grit, caffeine, and the determination not to let another railroad on borrowed time slip away undocumented.
Let's be optimistic, that we are going to jump into a better, more peaceful, fairer, healthier, more colourful happy New Year!
Sphingonotus spec.
Sand Grasshopper
Sandschrecke
Steppegræshoppe
Saltamonte jaspeado
Exposure time (= flash duration): 50 µs = 1/20.000 s
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If you like my pictures of insects in flight, you should visit my special website on insect flight:
Wenn Ihnen meine Bilder fliegender Insekten gefallen, besuchen Sie bitte meine Homepage speziell zu diesem Thema:
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PLEASE, NO AWARDS, no Copy and Paste Comments and no group icons like "your wonderful photo was seen in group xyz". They will be deleted as soon as I see them.
BITTE KEINE AWARDS, kopierte Kommentare oder diese Gruppen-Icons wie "Ich habe Dein wunderbares Bild in Gruppe xyz gesehen". Die lösche ich sobald ich sie sehe.
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Optimistically waiting for a glimmer of sunshine on an overcast morning in woodland in Uppland in Central Sweden back in mid-June (1165)
A most assured light from the Wensum was seen
resplendent o'er meadows afar
coming from points east to west that most impressed
the deepest feelings of all we are
Here is found a valley so pure where Wensum doth flow
upon it's reaches flowers so optimistic
for the passer-by thus able to browse silhouette's so sable
of a Norfolk pure and naturalistic
A haven of meadow flower doth teach
by light of rising and setting Suns
a penchant for desire in life and dreamy attire
for we know we are not the only ones!
by anglia24
11h00: 26/01/2008
©2008anglia24
The night before was beset with storms and so I wasn't at all optimistic I would get any decent sunrise shots at Cape Bruny. But I set the alarm clock anyway.
When I woke the rain had stopped, but I couldn't see the night sky, so assumed the worst. Still I was prepared to take the 30 kilometre drive through the South Bruny National Park to the lighthouse and take my chances.
When I arrived it was very dark and the only light I had was a small flashlight as I made my way up the steep path to the lighthouse over 100 metres above sea level. Then as the winds blew I noticed the moon appearing behind the cloud cover. So I set up my tripod and took this 30 second exposure by moonlight.
My title comes from the book about a secret British commando landing in Crete during WW2. This book by Stanley Moss was made into a 1957 film starring Dirk Bogarde. Ill Met by Moonlight [Dirk Bogarde] (1957) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ahvCt9r4R4
The Nazis had turned Crete into an impenetrable fortress and had virtually enslaved the local population. The aim of this daring night raid was to capture the General Heinrich Kreipe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Kreipe
Photo captured via Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm F/1.7 Lens. Washington's Central Cascades Range. Wenatchee/Chelan Highlands section within the North Cascades Region. Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Chelan County, Washington. Late October 2021.
Exposure Time: 1/25 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4350 K * Plug-In: Vibrant Fall Bright - Lou & Marks * Elevation: 2,211 feet above sea-level