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Taken on Laranjeiras Beach.
Obrigado a todos pelas visitas e pelos comentários...
Tks to all for the visits and commentaries...
Vespa ducalis
CAVEAT!!! As you probably know, it is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to take photo without knowledge of this insect. See "Anaphylaxis to Insect Sting"
Camera: RICOH Caplio G4wide (1cm macro capability)
Image Size: 1280 * 1024 [Best viewed large]
Original photo taken by Mr. Akuben. (my friend)
Edited (rotation & crop) by Hiroo Yamada. (me)
I have a right to upload the photo to the public.
Bar Duomo is part of the Grand Hotel Duomo in Pisa, Italy and is located about 100 meters from the famous Leaning Tower. What struck me was the rich colors and texture of the old building's face showing signs of disrepair and urban decay. Some might call it "character".
There's still a little color left in the old place..... See large size to appreciate the aging of this house of the past... and...... there's a ghost in the red window!
"IzaDora - Big City Girl" painting that I just bought.
Acrylic painting by artist Milena Matic. For photos of her other paintings LINK:
This was taken with a Sigma 105mm macro lens that has a fairly shallow depth of field on certain shots.
But here I liked the effect of the body being in soft focus behind the head of this tiny barking green tree frog.
This fine prince of the amphibian world resides in our garden and seems to enjoy the leaves of the canna plants.
I met this couple in Piedmont Park in Atlanta. They challenged themselves to do 40 acts of kindness in 40 days. They have handed out oranges to the homeless, given hugs to the elderly and have made many human connections with their kindnesses. They were such a ray of sunshine and I loved meeting them. PAY IT FORWARD everyone!
On the way home from the District Convention. We didn't stop here. This is another one of my 65-75mph out of the car window shots, and I have no clue how the foreground turned out so clearly. In the large version, you can even see the price of the gasoline!
Picture of a macaque monkey taken in the Yaen-koen (monkey park) in Jigokudani, Nagano prefecture (Japan)
Taken at Ferry Beach in Scarborough, Maine
One of my favorite places on earth and a remider of why I moved to Maine.
She was being reflected in an old mirror, and the imperfect glass created some subtle distortion in the image.
1. Paris in a Nutshell, 2. Flowers, 3. The Magic Hour, 4. Reflections, 5. Scotland in a Nutshell, 6. Sea Shots, 7. Norway in a Nutshell, 8. Northen Ireland in a Nutshell, 9. Autumn, 10. The Beauty of a Tree, 11. Looooooooooooooooooong Exposures, 12. Below Zero, 13. Germany in a Nutshell
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mdumlao98 got a good panning shot of a train and it made me jealous. So when I got stuck at this crossing and knew a train was coming I had to get one for myself. Actually, I usually get stuck by this train on my way home during my morning break. It took a few different attempts before I got one I liked.
Yellowstone National Park, July 2006
Steam from Excelsior Geyser Crater in the Midway Geyser Basin obscures the early morning sun.
A HDR image of a typical downtown street scene in Houston. Unfortunately, there's some funkiness going on due to the people in the HDR image, but I thought it was cool enough to post.
he is also in a video: www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZJD...
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i'm just an average man
with an average life
i work from nine to five
hey, hell, I pay the price
all I want is to be left alone
in my average home
but why do I always feel
like I'm in the twilight zone...
• rockwell - somebody is watching me •
the hook of this song came up my mind when i saw this.
soundtrack to this picture?
have you seen my other 'soundtracked' pics? i love this idea!
Probably too late to be taking pictures (this was taken at around 2300 hours) but the longer days mean twilights/sunsets are out as I have other priorities during those times and for the last few days the light in London hasn't been impressive enough to tempt me to make the effort.
I had a little trouble framing this one: a bit more to the right and the mast gets cut off, a bit more to the left and the viewpoint is obstructed with a large sign
Autofocus wouldn't work as well and I had to use a torchlight to light up the scene.
This is a 245 second exposure
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(From a sign in front of the ship)
This full-size reconstruction of Sir Francis Drake's 16th century galleon has travelled over 140,000 miles, including sailing around the world.
Drake was knighted in 1581 aboard the original Golden Hinde.
Queen Elizabeth 1 ordered the ship to be preserved and it became the world's first maritime museum.
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From WikiPedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Hinde
The Golden Hind was an English ship best known for its global circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. It was originally known as the Pelican and was renamed in mid-voyage 1577 by Drake as he prepared to enter the Straits of Magellan. He rechristened the ship the Golden Hind in a political gesture, to compliment his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose armorial crest was a golden hind (in heraldry a "hind" is a doe).
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A modern replica of the same ship was launched in 1973 and has travelled more than 140,000 miles (225 000 km), a distance equal to more than five times around the globe. Like the original, it circumnavigated the world. Since the 1990s it has been berthed at St Mary Overie's Dock, in Bankside, Southwark, London, close to Southwark Cathedral.
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From: www.goldenhinde.co.uk/
The S. V. Golden Hinde is an accurate reconstruction of Sir Francis Drake’s Tudor Galleon berthed on the Thames in St. Mary Overie Dock. The ship operates as a living history museum, running a fulltime schedule of educational programmes suited to schools and families. These include guided tours, workshops and the opportunity for both school and family groups to spend a night on board ship on an imaginary voyage. Dressed in period clothes, Drake’s new recruits learn 16th Century skills, eat Tudor food and experience life 400 years ago. The ship is also open to the public for self guided tours.
The Living History programme involves children, parents/teachers spending a night aboard the Golden Hinde, wearing period dress and experiencing the lives of officers, gunners, sailors or barber surgeons. Elizabethan characters train participants in many aspects of life at sea with Drake, including cannon drills, early navigation and 16th century medicine.
The Golden Hinde, built in 1973, is an accomplished sea worthy vessel and has itself circumnavigated the world and over 140,000 sea miles. There are exhibits and artefacts on each of her five decks including fourteen cannons on the gun deck. The creaks, smells and low headroom easily transport the children back to the colourful Elizabethan period and it is easy to recapture the atmosphere aboard the original Golden Hinde.
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