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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?
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.
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.
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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I'm optimistic that this will clean up nicely, very nicely in fact! It looks good underneath and I cannot wait to clean it.
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
With this photo I start a series of photos, whose concept, is a sample of "so dreaded". My idea is to try with images, give an idea of a final post-war world. If I may, I believe that beyond, whether or not it will happen, I imagine the reconstruction. I want to put a personal idea: where in a world 60 people, have, the patrimony, equivalent to 3,500,000,000 million people, it is easy to understand that the concentration of power will continue increasing, along with the hunger of more than half of the habitants of this planet. It is not very unimaginable, that at some moment, this unjust reality, must change. SO THE FINAL MESSAGE IS OF OPTIMISM, MORE THAN, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE, .... SECURELY, .... BE OPTIMISTIC, THE IDEA OF A FINAL WAR. BUT IN CASE OF SUCCESS. THE RECOVERY WILL BE ON MORE EQUITABLE AND SOLIDARITY SOCIETY.
Although surely these 60 people, you will have what is necessary for your bunker, and as always they will be the weak ones, that we will suffer the consequences, ... even so, I think that the majority that survives, you will remember of which place it comes and of which they do not want to return . In any case we will have to ask the more than 1.800.000.000, who can not eat daily
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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.
Wandering around the desert southwest we came upon an abandoned set of buildings covered in graffiti. This is the only one i found providing some hope.
But then, there is always the fine print!
(Look at LARGE size for the fine print)
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
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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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The Atomium was built as part of the Brussels World's Fair in 1958, the so-called Expo 58. It represents a single elemental cell of pure iron that was developing rapidly and played an important role in the optimistic view of development in the 1950s. It has the cubic spatially centered structure, like pure iron at room temperature and under atmospheric pressure. Strangely enough, it was decided during construction that the spheres should not be made of steel, but of aluminum. This material was an emerging material at the time. It is not known exactly why this decision was made, but it is likely that aluminum was significantly more resistant to corrosion than steel at the time. According to the original plan, the building would not remain standing for more than six months. At the end of the world exhibition, however, it was decided to leave the building, which had meanwhile become very popular and well-known.
Het Atomium is gebouwd in het kader van de Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling in 1958, de zogenaamde Expo 58. Het stelt één elementaire cel zuiver ijzer voor dat sterk in ontwikkeling was en een belangrijke rol speelde in de optimistische kijk op ontwikkeling in de jaren vijftig. Het heeft de kubisch ruimtelijk gecentreerde structuur, zoals zuiver ijzer bij kamertemperatuur en onder atmosferische druk. Vreemd genoeg werd bij de bouw besloten dat de bollen niet van staal, maar van aluminium moesten worden gemaakt. Dit materiaal was in die tijd een materiaal in opkomst. Het is niet precies bekend waarom dit besluit werd genomen, maar waarschijnlijk was de reden dat aluminium op dat ogenblik aanmerkelijk beter bestand was tegen corrosie dan staal. Het gebouw zou volgens het oorspronkelijke plan niet langer dan zes maanden blijven staan. Aan het eind van de wereldtentoonstelling werd echter besloten om het gebouw, dat inmiddels erg populair en bekend was geworden, toch maar te laten staan.
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
I am not optimistic that it will make it to produce a pumpkin as it is proving to be such a cool summer and pumpkins need a lot of warmth but I carry on hoping.
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One from the archives, taken last year in the Great Wilderness in Wester Ross. Probably the best and by far the longest overnight walk I've done (in Scotland at least), summiting 5 Munros and 1 Corbett. Unfortunately the weather forecast had been overly optimistic, so the photos weren't too spectacular, but it's all about the experience. Okay, mostly...
This is the view from Ruadh Stac Mor over Beinn Dearg Mor with An Teallach beyond.
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
I wen t optimistically looking for the first spring beauty but had to accept the silhouettes of transitioning pieces of forest through the final snow
Perhaps the coldest point on my journey and the most optimistic I've been with previously unknown circumstances, Koyasan was astounding. This sacred mountain sits in the heart of Wakayama (and I do mean it, it is VERY deep in the mountains) and is considered holy under the order of Shingon Buddhism, which was invented here as well.
The town itself is beautiful and rural, exactly what you'd expect from a mountain village. But people, myself included, normally come here for the massive Okunoin Cemetery. Sheltered by a massive canopy of trees, this place can look dark and dim at any time of year.
Snow is often not a nice thing to deal with when you're not prepared. Especially with the tight turns on the road up to Koyasan, not to mention roads are more narrow in Japan, and there's tour buses around nearly every turn, not a very peaceful journey.
But I instantly tried to make good of this. I've seen photos of this place in rain, sun, and best of all, fog, but I've never seen a shot in the snow. I didn't have any predetermined photo spots as I wanted to be surprised anyways. So all these factors combined made me open to many suggestions. I mean, I said it myself in my "about" page, "I see somethin I shoot somethin".
When it came time to edit this, I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do with it. I wanted to make the photo darker and more mystical to match it's atmosphere. I gave the lanterns more light and brought a dark brush to most of the image except the path itself. Added a vignette afterwards, the sun was truly shinin' down on the path. And it's position only got better as time went on, you'll see.
As an American who's been to considerably more "gothic" cemeteries, this one didn't quite tick as hard as I thought but I still had a great time. It's still a place that teams with a similar type of essence. Of course, the Japanese have a very different relation with the deceased then we do in the west (hence my editing choices). But one thing is for sure, we both know how to house the departed well.
I love cemeteries so much.