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At a total height of 88 feet, this handsome segmented plunged-based waterfall drops only once and is quite the charm for its audience. Belonging to the North Fork Nooksack River stream and the Nooksack River watershed, this beautiful fall has a dark side; since the 1940s, at least 11 people have met their fate here. More than likely, they were attempting to achieve a better view of the falls, which costed them their lives. Be sure to exercise caution in this rather easy-going environment.
Photo of the top portion of Nooksack Falls, at its drop, captured via Minolta MD W.Rokkor-X 24mm F/2.8 Lens. Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. North Cascades Lowland Forests section within the Cascades Region. Whatcom County, Washington. On the first day of May 2016.
Exposure Time: 0.3 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/22 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 6450 K * Filter: Warming Filter (85)
I've been watching a documentary series about big cats recently & in many of the episodes, there's footage of the cats, particularly the youngsters, trying their best to creep up on... well, anything that moves really - even when their chosen quarry is huge & far beyond their capabilities of taking on, or simply too far away for them to stand a chance of catching it. It was making me laugh because the behaviour reminded me of Flynn's antics.
Flynn doesn't generally stalk 4-legged animals but he is endlessly optimistic about creeping up humans who even *might* possibly be going to throw a toy for him, or anything remotely like a toy: a pebble, a clump of mud, a leaf, a blade of grass will do. In the moments before I took this photo, he'd been flopped on the grass, contentedly chewing on a nice crumbly piece of stick. However, when I crouched nearby & moved my hand in a way that made it look like I could, maybe be reaching for something on the ground, Flynn immediately dropped his stick, slowly rose to his feet & began carefully stalking closer. He simply cannot resist the urge to slink around like a point-nosed feline... Flynn likes chasing stuff too but I think if you asked him, I'm sure he'd tell you that all the sneaking about he does beforehand is at least as much fun, if not more so!
Haha, of course, there are some major differences between Flynn & cats (including the small cats!) - one of which is that Flynn is much less murder-y in his intentions than they are! Flynn loves stalking & chasing stuff - but as I've said before, he has zero ambitions to *catch* anything that is alive (tennis balls are another matter). It does amaze me that humans bred working herding dogs, Flynn's ancestors - to have SUCH very strong instincts to endlessly, obsessively follow the routine of beginning "hunts": fixating on a target, eyeing it, stalking, circling, making it move & chasing it in the required direction but at the same time, they bred out the desire to finish that natural sequence by actually grabbing hold (well, mostly - I've seen collies bite naughty sheep on the nose!) & snagging their own dinners, as would happen in nature!
Slapton Ley South Hams Coast Devon.
"Ramblings"
Only a few occasions have I arrived at or been driving past slapton ley during the sunrise hours to find some welcome mist over the ley.
I`m sure these atmospheric conditions over the lake occur a little more often during the early hours than I happen to see but for the most part its only the weekend mornings I can make time to visit.
This was the best I have witnessed with the mist covering most of the ley as normaly its just a few pockets drifting around the lake and I was not expecting to see any mist on a mild July morning so a nice welcome bonus surprise and a lovely start to my day.
You need a little luck on your side having the swans in the right location as it is a rather large lake with only a few areas you can put yourself at eye level to photograph them so always nice when it comes together.
The mute swan my "Spark Bird" that lead me up the happy path of "Birding" and bird photography back in spring 2020.
And to this day the graceful swans are is still my fav waterbird to watch and photograph especially in atmospheric mist.
In the spirit of my wonderful vacation at Playa Del Carman, Mexico
ive decided to do my first 52 with a picture ive taken today at the beach (:
im so upset that im leaving in two days to go back to the cold snow ... and school! D:
but this vacation has changed me. i dont know why, or how, but ive become happier and more optimistic in life
i think its only perfect that i start this at the beginning of the year, and to be honest? im a bit scared. I dont think ill be able to do it ... so fingers crossed!
Im excited! :D
im so happy its 2011
i know its going to be a good one
i think ive even fallen in love with someone :3
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OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
FIRST EXPLORE EVER ON MY FRIST EVER PHOTO ON MY FIRST EVER 52 PROJECT
2011, i love you <3
thank you SOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOOSO much everyone! :D
asldjalsdjk im screaming with excitment!!
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excuse me while i change my pants
Keep my Mom in mind today and keep optimistic! Her infectious smile and laugh that makes everyone happy. For a month, she has been in isolation and tested positive two weeks ago, and is making it through the COVID-19, age 93 at the epicenter (Life Care Center of Kirkland) in the US, and she will be 94 when it is over. When asked how she was feeling, she said, better than I was! She has made it through the great depression, tuberculosis quarantine, measles, mumps, chickenpox, and so many more episodes of flu than we can imagine. She has the faith and hope of a mustard seed and loves the Lord, Jesus Christ. With these factors, she is a perfect example that we must fight to flatten the line, keep self quarantined and keep smiling. Stay inside, please.
So many lives taken in this world from the virus. I am sorry to all who have lost someone they love.
This, too, shall pass! And we will be a better world for it.
Love to everyone!
My mage's cosplay of an what Conan would dress like as an optimist. The sword's rubber.
Nocturne RP sim
So the forecast for today turned out to be a bit optimistic. Mostly Sunny, mid-70s. The latter was accurate, but it was substantially overcast, often with dark clouds. High humidity, and not a wisp of a breeze.
In other words, possible to do macro work, but less than ideal. So I made it into a retro day. I decided to go out and show what older gear could do...if I was successful. Took the D7100 and a Nikon macro lens that came out in 1973 (and hasn't been upgraded or replaced.) And a tripod...the only hope in those lighting conditions.
It was intended as more a play day than a serious outing. I wanted to see how 'macro-ish' I could be
This photo is one of the first I shot, as I was trying to dial in exposure settings. The D7100 settings are quite different than the newer bigger cameras. The glass, though, always tells the tale.
My two immediate reactions to the D7100...a camera I relied on as my main body for several years...were noticeable immediately. First, burst mode. What was considered fairly speedy when the D7100 came out is very slow now, and seems to have a 'check with me' feature which complicated things. Even in burst mode, with lower light, it seemed to want to confirm either focus or exposure before doing the burst. Probably a menu setting I've forgotten about since then. Not a serious drawback.
The other noticeable thing is no surprise...but not wonderful just the same. I've always relied on higher ISO settings...always pushing any particular camera to give me extra stops of exposure via higher ISO. The D7100 may have been an ISO improvement over previous cameras (though the D300 shot better at higher ISO, and it is some years older.)
Initially I set the D7100 to an ISO sensitivity just slightly lower than I would the D500 or D4s. That turned out to still be too high, with noticeable 'noise'. I dropped it back to ISO1000, which wasn't bad (this photo for example)...and then to even lower sensitivity. The darker sky environment was not conducive to ISO experiments.
There are always other ways to get a bit more shutter speed...without resorting to flash. This photo is a reasonable example of what is possible with fairly appropriate settings and a steady tripod.
During Amandas very first visit to Vancouver Island, I took her to one of my favourite forests on the West Coast.
After a fun day of watching otters on the beach and saying hello to a bear who was happily munching on grass, we decided to head home.
I stopped at this spot on the trail just to play around with this composition but I wasn't very optimistic about getting any good ight.
After about 20 minutes of waiting I decided to quit and was packing up my gear when Amanda said ''wait, I can see some mist rolling in''.
I quickly pulled my camera back out of the bag, placed it on the tripod and held my breath.
Within about a minute, the ocean spray drifted in and caught the late afternoon sun in a magical display of light rays.
That golden light on the underside of that twirling branch was the icing on the cake.
This all happened in just a few minutes and I was shooting with shaking hands while wearing a manic grin on my face.
Amanda says that's when she fell in love with me. Because she'd finally found someone as crazy as she was.
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Gavin Hardcastle - Fototripper
Optimistic Sharp-shinned Hawk foraging for nesting materials.
Common activity... uncommon species for this area.
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Our Daily Challenge: Optimism
Nothing like beautiful flowers and cheery lights to make one feel optimistic.
Sitting optimistically next to a picnic hamper, Hubert is carefully keeping his clean shoes - as can be seen - off the tablecloth while hoping that there are some goodies coming his way.
When the new Railway Children film is out in 2022 Oakworth and the KWVR generally may well be very popular for tourists. It is anyway and it could get hectic.
“Reaching out, for new heights
You inspired me to try
Felt the magic inside
And I felt that I could fly
I'm looking at the world in an optimistic light
You made me appreciate my life
'Cos when you came you were like
Sunshine through my window
That's what you are
My shining star (Sunshine)
Making me feel like
I'm on top of the world
Telling me I'll go far.”
Sunshine | Gabrielle
A group of fishermen take a break from casting their reels to enjoy the dramatic sunset as the storm clouds roll in. Sandy Point, Trinidad & Tobago.
Ptilopsis leucotis
Northern white-faced Owl - Noordelijke witwangdwergooruil (Spain)
Canon 7D + Canon EF 300mm F2.8 L IS USM + 2x TC
I am not sure if this pedal rikshaw driver smiled like this because he was having his photo taken or because he was hopeful of getting a customer. I liked how this turned out though.
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
January 2019
The 50mm f/1.4 has been a solid walkabout lens for me so far. It is light and handles almost anything thrown at it. Love it!
An optimistic trip to Sidmouth for sunrise proved just that - optimistic. Therefore I tried to make what I could of this breakwater that I always have trouble with, composition-wise.
Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's own life, or the world at large.
isa.. never lose hope.. please.
The Grand Opera House opened in April 1909. Its investors were 14 businessmen, including William Bell who shared an optimistic vision for the young city of about 4,200 – neighbouring Copper Cliff's population was about 3,000. The theatre originally had more than 1,000 seats, three balconies, majestic high ceilings, sophisticated art nouveau decorations throughout and an elegant lobby.
In December 1929, the first all-talking feature movie, “Lights of New York,” was shown. The owners of the renamed Grand Theatre invested $20,000 to install the Vitaphone sound system, which involved a record disc played in sync with the film.
During the 1930s, the Grand was owned by William Mason, owner of the Sudbury Star.*
The Grand survived The Depression, the death of vaudeville, and the Second World War. But by 1949, it was in need of major repairs. New owners renovated the building into two movie theatres, the Empire and the Plaza.
Laurentian University used the offices in the building at 28 Elgin for classes until its campus opened in 1964. Later, Gauvreau Academy of Dance and Modeling was located in the upper offices.
When the movie theatres closed in 1986, Ted Szilva, developer of the Big Nickel tourist attraction, bought the building for $400,000 and spent another $200,000 on renovations. Ornate chandeliers from the Capitol Theatre on Durham Street were installed and this added to the grandeur.
Legendary performer Tony Bennett opened the revitalized performance centre in 1987. During a renaissance from 1987 to the mid-1990s, it booked A-list entertainers such as Johnny Cash, Celine Dion, Tom Jones, Nana Mouskouri, k.d. lang, Conway Twitty, Wayne Newton, Engelbert Humperdinck, Crowded House, George Carlin, the Smothers Brothers, Howie Mandel and the Beach Boys.
Szilva's plans may have been too grand. Although Sudbury audiences were enthusiastic about its heady schedule of entertainment, the city's population was not large enough or wealthy enough to fill the theatre night after night. The building went into receivership.
Claude Michel purchased the Grand with his father, Arnel, and two private investors in 1988. He continued to book top acts, but asked the city for relief for property taxes of $50,000. The city "rented" the theatre for 40 nights over 12 months and community art groups could apply to use the space at no cost. The relief program ended in 1996.
Michel found running a nightclub, then known as the Big Thunder Bar, more profitable. The seats were removed and the sloped floor was levelled. Office space in the building was converted into apartments.
The Grand was put on the market in 1999 for $1 million, but there was little interest from prospective buyers. Michel finally sold it in 2013.
Today, the Grand Nightclub is a popular dance club that also books concerts and rents space for theatre productions and special events. A second bar, in the old Plaza theatre space formerly known as Coyotes, is now called Fuse.
Explored September 18, 2023 #260.
The Dixie Walesbilt Hotel, known as the Grand Hotel in later years, is one of a small number of skyscrapers built in the 1920s that still stand today and is a prime example of how optimistic people were during the Florida land boom. Built in 1926, it found financing through a stock-sale campaign in the local business community, costing $500,000 after it was completed(which equates to about $6 million today.)
The building architecture, masonry vernacular with hints of Mediterranean-Revival, is also a good example of the time is was built. It was designed by two well-known architects at the time, Fred Bishop who designed the Byrd Theatre in Virginia, and D.J. Phipps, whose designed both the Wyoming County Courthouse and Jail and the Colonial Hotel in Virginia.
The hotel was constructed using the “three-part vertical block” method, which became the dominant pattern in tall buildings during the 1920s. Three-part buildings are composed of a base, shaft and a cap, all noticeably visible.
The hotel opened as the “Walesbilt” in January 1927, shortly after the land boom had started to collapse and two years before the Great Depression began. It’s also best to note that the hotel opened around the same time the Floridan Hotel in Tampa opened, another hotel built during the Florida land boom.
In 1972, the hotel was purchased by Anderson Sun State and renamed the “Groveland Motor Inn”. The firm completely renovated the hotel and used it to host visitors to the area who were interested in Green Swamp, land sectioned off for land development. At the time there was heavy speculation in the land because of it’s close proximity to Walt Disney World and were selling for around $5,000 an acre at the time. That ended after a state cabinet designation of the swamp as an area of critical state concern, placing the land off-limits to any large land developments. The firm filed for foreclosure and the hotel was auctioned off in 1974. Despite RCI Electric purchasing the hotel, it remained empty for many years afterwards.
n 1978, the hotel was signed over to the Agape Players, a nationally known religious music and drama group, who would assume the mortgage and would pay the costs to make improvements to meet city fire and safety standards. The hotel was renamed the “Royal Walesbilt” and after extensive improvements were made, it became the headquarters for the Agape Players; using it as a teaching facility and the base from which the group launched their tours. In addition, they operated a restaurant, an ice cream parlor on the lobby floor and a “Christian hotel” on the upper floors, catering mostly to groups. The Agape Players disbanded in 1985 and put the property up for sale
Victor Khubani, a property investor from New York acquired the property and renamed the hotel “Grand”. The hotel closed briefly in December 1988, due to a variety of code violations and causing the owner to later pay $14,000 in fines. On August 31, 1990 it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, possibly for tax exemption reasons. In October 1991, The State Fire Marshall’s Office gave the owner one year to install a new sprinkler system and in May 1993, the code enforcement board gave Khubani until March to complete the work.
In March 1994, the hotel closed due to multiple code violations and was to remain closed until a new fire sprinkler system was installed. To reopen, the fire escapes and elevator, which did not function, would have to be repaired as well. In 1995, the hotel was auctioned off to a redevelopment firm, which dismantled part of the interior for reconstruction, which was never completed.
Since then, the hotel has deteriorated, becoming an eyesore to many of the residents of Lake Wales and nicknamed “The Green Monster” for the greenish color it has acquired from over the years. In 1995, it was even jokingly mentioned to become a sacrifice to “the bomb”, an economic boom that occurred in parts of Florida where movie production companies would pay cities to blow up buildings for their movies. In 2007, the city foreclosed on the structure for more than $700,000 in unpaid code fines, with hopes in finding someone to restore it.
Development firm, Dixie-Walesbilt LLC announced plans to restore the hotel, signing into an agreement with the city of Lake Wales in February 2010. By the agreement, the city would retain ownership of the building until a defined amount of work had been accomplished. The work must be completed within 16 months and the amount of money invested must succeed at least $1.5 million. The building would then be handed off the Dixie Walesbilt LLC, where they may continue with private funding or other methods to for debt funding.
Ray Brown, President of Dixie Walesbilt LLC, planned to invest $6 million into the renovation, with original plans to put retail stores on the ground floor and using the upper floors for as many as 40 condominiums.
On June 2, 2011, the city of Lake Wales agreed to deed the building off to Ray Brown in a 4-1 vote, after meeting the requirements of the redevelopment agreement. Though Brown submitted a list of costs to the city totaling $1.66 million, Mayor Mike Carter wasn’t satisfied with the results so far, pointing out that Brown failed to repair the windows and repaint the building. Previous owners had put tar on the building and then painted over it, so much of Brown’s investment went to stripping the tar off the exterior walls.
To repaint the building, Brown would also have to resurface the hotel with hydrated lime to replicate the original skin as well as the window frames would need to be constructed of Douglas fir, red cedar and gulf cypress. According to Brown, previous owners who renovated the building rarely removed the building original elements. They carpeted over intricate tile flooring, stuck tar paper above skylights and placed modern drinking fountains in front of the originals. He estimated about 98 percent of the building is still in it’s original form.
Restoration of the building’s exterior began in January 2015 and included surface repair, pressure washing, paint removal, chemical treatment, and a comprehensive resurfacing of the exterior.
While the original plans were for turning the building into condominiums, that has since changed and current plans call for operating the building as a boutique hotel. The hotel will feature geothermal cooling as opposed to traditional air conditioning, a permanent art gallery as well as theme gallery showings throughout the year, and the best WiFi/internet in the city. The project is expected to be completed in 18 to 24 months.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.cityoflakewales.com/505/Dixie-Walesbilt-Hotel
www.abandonedfl.com/dixie-walesbilt-hotel/
www.emporis.com/buildings/178033/grand-hotel-lake-wales-f...
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Optimistically started to set up this morning to view the latest batch of sunspots, thinking we would have a half decent day. Cloud began to build from the North East during this process so I decided the SW120ED would stay in the box today and just loaded the 72ED-R Lightwave instead. Seeing became quite turbulent and now 2 hrs later we are totally clouded out. At least it gave me an opportunity to find out if the filter I made for this scope works.
Captured via an Orion SSAG in Planetary Mode using a continuum & UV/IR stack filter set. Best 85% of 2000 frames.
Praha-Prague_Kavárna - Restaurace s velmi optimistickým jménem "Márnice".__Cafe - Restaurant with a very optimistic name "morgue".
On the 18th of December we woke up, got our rental car and headed for Irazu volcano. My wife really was looking forward to seeing the caldera of Irazu and Turrialba volcanoes. Unfortunately due to covid and what seems like just very poor management, it is almost impossible to figure out how to make reservations or where to even go in those national parks to be able to hike or drive to the edge of the volcanoes. All the phone numbers seem disconnected on the countries national park websites and the email addresses listed just bounce back as undeliverable.
When we arrived at Irazu after a long windy drive through acres and acres of farmland growing potatoes, onions and cattle, we were told we had to make a reservation online and they were very unhelpful with how to do that and said it was too late to make a reservation for that day anyway. They directed us to another section of the park on the east side of the mountain that we were able to visit and it had some amazing cloud forest with cool plants and a view of the Turrialba volcano which was much closer than I imagined.
When we got out of the car I think it finally registered with my kids why I told them to bring coats to Costa Rica. It was only in the 50's at that high altitude and there wasn't much sun on that side that late in the day. I got a cell phone shot of the volcano from afar and zoomed in with my Olympus Em1x and 100-400 lens to get a closer view of the charred hillsides of the volcano.
There were some cool hummingbirds but they were shy and the lighting was terrible so no pics of those.
My son though I should look under a couple of rocks to see what we could find. I wasn't too optimistic given the elevation and temperature and exposure but there were only a couple of decent rocks and under the first one I found two cute little Highland Alligator lizards (Mesaspis monticola). Unfortunately they were both drab juveniles or females. It was a bright green adult male of this species that I had really hoped to see on this trip. Those little gators are amazing lizards to be able to survive in such a harsh cold environment. I wish I had taken more time to photograph them but I thought we would see many more in the coming 4 days while we were in the montane habitats but alas that wasn't too be.