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A Green heron still hanging around. I wasn't expecting to see one today. It was a pleasant surprise.
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From the files
Wildwood lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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f6/3 1/1000sec. ISO 1000 552mm
...How important is it to walk along, not in haste but slowly, looking at everything and calling out
Yes! No!
... To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
~ Mary Oliver [Yes! No!; White Pine]
We are blessed by nature's abundance of beauty surrounding us, we must not be greedy and get rid of it, we will only do ourselves harm. We need to learn to live in harmony with nature.
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I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
Brene Brown
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
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Recently we were looking back through our school photos and reminiscing, we were so lucky as children, the world was a totally different place, we could go out after school climb trees, have a good time, generally be rascals and nobody minded at all.
Regarding school, again this was a totally different experience, I felt very privileged to have attended school with some real little characters.
One afternoon during a biology lesson our teacher put this question to a very bight pupil, “Clarrisa, if I covered up one of your eyes what would happen”, Clarrisa responded I could only partially see.
The teacher said “and if I were to cover both of your eyes what would happen”, Clarrisa responded, I would not be able to see anything, “well done Clarrisa” said the teacher, “very good indeed”.
Next our teacher looked to the back of the room, where we all sat, she shouted at Stanley, “Stanley pay attention, If I cut off one of your ears, what would happen”, Stanley responded, I could only partially see. She said “if I cut off both of your ears what would happen”, Stanley responded, I would not be able to see anything, the teacher said “how do you make that out”, well if you cut off my ears Miss, my glasses would fall on the floor.
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This is Mt. Baker done in the style of Ansel Adams. I found an excellent Lightroom tutorial that is really worth watching. Its like magic!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YquFtGZk4-c&list=PLmXfFxjdp3C...
French Fries? Yes! Watch the video!
Buffelsdrift, Oudtshoorn, Kleine Karoo Wüste, Swatberge, Südafrika
Having a break (cup of coffee & cake) after great visit of Cango Caves. Next stop South-Africa: Mossel Bay.
Restaurant und Game Lodge, Auf dem Rückweg von den Cango-Höhlen haben wir hier eine Kaffeepause gemacht.
As the saying goes, if you spend too much time Chimping ( checking every photo on your camera display after each capture). You might start looking like….
Just recently, a day hiker lost his footing above Sol Duc Falls and tumbled over two spillways. He is extremely lucky to have survived. As you can see in my photograph the water is a torrent of action as it cuts through this narrow passageway.
Story is here; www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20160522/NEWS/305229981
Note to hikers......respect these places!
Here's the famous
and always beloved
beamish boy of mine
in my office, where he
read aloud from a book as
part of his nightly homework.
He's only in 2nd grade, but has
much homework each night.
I couldn't decide which of
these 2 shots i liked more,
so put them together.
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Please take your time... and enjoy it large on black
The Oostvaardersplassen is a nature reserve in the Netherlands. Despite its young age, it is in a polder which was only created in 1968, it already has international importance as a European wetland. The Oostvaardersplassen can be divided into two areas: wet and dry. Before the establishment of the reserve, the dry area was a nursery for willow trees, and in the first year hundreds of seedlings could be found on each square metre. This led to concern that a dense woodland would develop, significantly reducing the value of the habitat for water birds. To avoid this, the park's managers brought in a number of large herbivores to keep the area more open, including Konik horses, Red deer and Heck cattle. These large grazing animals are kept out in the open all year round without supplemental feeding, and are allowed to behave as wild animals without, for example, castrating males. The ecosystem developing under their influence is thought to resemble those that would have existed on European river banks and deltas before human disturbance. Twelve hundred of the estimated thirty-six hundred cattle, horses, and deer have perished from today's winter starvation. Scientists and managers have deemed the deaths normal. People are not very happy that the government is letting the animals die. They see the Oostvaardersplassen as more of a zoo than a wild space. Well, I think the managers are doing the right thing to maintain a healthy population within the park’s carrying capacity.
A photo of Red Deer on the look-out taken in the harsh winter taken at the Dutch nature reserve Oostvaardersplassen. A Red Deer is always aware of danger, watching and take care. Located between Almere and Lelystad. I did enter the park at the Kottertocht entrance. It is hard to survive the winter. All animals are kept without supplemental winter feeding. Many Red deer and Konik horses already crossed the frozen water in search for food. Some horses were stucked due to their weight did crush the too thin ice. These konik horses where consuming the fibres of tree trunks, because food is very hard to find, although it is not there daily nutrition. Especially when there is deep snow, lack of food causes starvation among the weak and the strongest will survive . So the survival of the fittest keeps the herds strong and healthy. Also Foxes, which are quite common in this reserve, profit from carcasses of deer, cows and birds in winter. Maybe in future a pack of Wolves could do a great job as natural predators in this part of Holland.
Een bezoek aan de Oostvaardersplassen is een kennismaking met het Nederland van duizenden jaren geleden. Een ongerept moerasgebied, met uitgestrekte plassen en woeste graslanden. De natuur mag er onbelemmerd haar gang gaan. Uniek in Nederland én in Europa. Natuurliefhebbers komen hier helemaal aan hun trekken. Vogels kijken op de plassen, een excursie naar de edelherten, een fotosafari naar de grote grazers. Of maak een rustige wandeling naar een van de vogelobservatiehutten. De Oostvaardersplassen zijn het grootste moerasgebied van Nederland. De weidsheid is ongekend en de natuur heeft er vrij spel. Ontelbare vogels hebben bezit genomen van het gebied. Vooral in de winter is dat een spectaculair gezicht. Het witte besneeuwde winterlandschap is indrukwekkend kaal en stil. De natuur is er nog jong. Toch is het nu al een natuurgebied van internationale allure. De bomen, struiken en bossen zitten vol vogels, zoogdieren en insecten. Grauwe ganzen grazen in het moeras. En de honderden Heckrunderen, konikpaarden en edelherten geven het gebied een haast on-Nederlandse aanblik. Staatsbosbeheer verwacht dat door de strenge winter dit jaar 30 procent van de edelherten, heckrunderen en konikpaarden in het natuurgebied de Oostvaardersplassen dood gaan. Het gaat om ongeveer 1200 dieren. Op zich is 30 procent niet meer dan in voorgaande jaren", aldus Staatsbosbeheer. ,,Maar de kuddes zijn door de zachte omstandigheden van de afgelopen jaren flink gegroeid. In absolute cijfers is het aantal dieren dat dood gaat daarom wel hoger dan normaal." Voor de winter liepen er in het natuurgebied ongeveer 570 heckrunderen, 1140 konikpaarden en 2320 edelherten. In de winter is de sterfte, vooral onder jonge dieren, groot. In de Oostvaardersplassen worden ernstig verzwakte dieren die toch zouden sterven afgeschoten. Zo wordt hen nodeloos lijden bespaard.
A poem that I wrote about Hell.
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Warning there is gore as all of the scenes used are from various horror flicks. I do not own rights to any of the footage being used. I do own rights to my poem.
This is not being used for profit. The purpose of this video is to deliver a message.
Laos is the most laid back country I have been to. You cannot take it at your pace. You have to go with the flow - meander around the town on foot, take a boat down the Mekong, get up early in the morning to watch the monks receive alms. This is as close to the romantic Indochina you can get.
The entire city of Luang Prabhang is a UNESCO World Heritage Site - "It is an outstanding example of the fusion of traditional architecture and Lao urban structures with those built by the European colonial authorities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its unique, remarkably well-preserved townscape illustrates a key stage in the blending of these two distinct cultural traditions."
The monks are the fabric that weaves the entire city together. Every Lao Buddhist male is expected to be a monk for a period of time in his life. This can range anywhere from as little as a week to a lifetime commitment. Of course, they make fascinating portrait subjects too.
Luang Prabang, Laos
2009
DON'T STOP there - Pull to the right and stop !
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4:39 PM. The fire truck is responding thru a very busy intersection (Los Alamitos Blvd. & Katella Ave.) with heavy traffic, enroute to an emergency "Code 3" (red lights and siren in use). Because of stopped traffic blocking the northbound lanes, the emergency vehicle temporarily drives (safely) northbound in the southbound lanes; the yellow sign warns to "watch for opposing traffic".
Even though the firefighters are 'legal' and the red lights and siren are easy to see and hear, when the light turns green for that car the driver proceeds across the intersection, as if the lane is open... Instead of, as the California motor vehicle code directs...
"VC 21806(a) : ... the driver of every other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way and shall immediately drive to the right-hand edge or curb of the highway, clear of any intersection, and thereupon shall stop and remain stopped until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed."
This driver then compounds the action by stopping right where you see it now, blocking the fire truck. Sure it can be a shock to drivers, but much less so if you are driving defensively, know the rules of the road, and heed them. Do this and get caught can result in lightening your cash count by the better part of $500.00, minimum.
BTW, Since we were stopped I planned to photograph the entire incident... but when the light turned green the driver behind me drove into the back of my vehicle. "But the light turned green", she said !
That fire truck is from my former station, just around the corner.
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The great Mr.Grohl. Leader of the
Foo Fighters, who are absolutely great. Pure,
genuine passion. Formerly of, of course,
Nirvana, where he played the drums
for his old friend Kurt Cobain. Now Dave is out
front, singing, writing songs, playing guitar.
I took this
outside of the Staples Center
on the day of the Grammys. Dave and his
band The Foo Fighters - along with a
full orchestra conducted by the one and only
John Paul Jones-
yes, that John Paul Jones, of Led Zeppelin-
performed a special outdoor rendition of their
great song "Pretender."
I was there as they rehearsed -
and though it wasn't televised -
Dave sang full-throttle - and looked
entirely overjoyed by the power
and beauty and majesty of the orchestra-
and the sun was shining, and fans were screaming-
and I stood front and center snapping
photos, amazed by it all. Many photos from this
to come
Afterwards, Dave and John with the guys
from the band and the orchestra
members posed with happy relaxed
smiles for photos, which I got in on.
I was dressed up for the Grammys -
nice jacket, shirt, tie - even pants -
and went up to Dave and asked for his
photo, and he said, "Why is it you photographers
are always the best-dressed people at these
things?" Then he posed for a few
and was sweet and funny. "This is the
best time of my life," he said. "I can't really
imagine it could get any better than this."
He was genuine, sweet, and very grounded.
The other photographer requested, for some
reason, that Dave take his picture with me. He handed
his big Canon with a giant lens to Dave, and put
his arm around me. We posed, Dave aimed
and said,
"Say Indiana Jones!" And we did.
Sometimes we need to look up from the little glowing screens & see the beauty surrounding us. Hibernian Hall in Charleston, South Carolina is a beauty few actually get to see. Her marble floors, imposing doors, and columns hold the echoes of history.
When you have a train coming in at speed, the crossing lights are flashing, the alarm is sounding and the arms are lowering, just stay behind the barricades.
This saves the poor engineer and me from watching you become a piece of unrecognizable goo in front of us.
Photographed in Red Wing Minnesota
Friday April 23rd, 2023
I have never understood why people are in such a hurry to get around a train. They walk around the gates when they are down and seem to think the train can stop on a dime.
Photographed in Red Wing Minnesota
September 1st 2018
This is not one of the frozen snowdrops from earlier. This is a different, yet possibly even chillier, snowdrop. Possibly called Pierre.
You'd think they'd learn, no? Discuss amongst themselves how bloody cold it is when it snows on them. Hey guys: did you notice that when we grow later in the year, we don't get so frozen? How about - now just run with me on this, okay? give me a chance to explain - how about next year, we poke our heads above ground in the spring? Yeah, I know. Crazy! But it just might work.