Can you help in a dermination ? I have strange amazing stones, I think they must be somewhat related to galena, but in a rare form ... limonite goethite pseudomorphs of galena with a path on marcassite pyrite ... is that possible ? some have the same core colour as a marcassite inside, but the outside is crystallised in galena forms ... ! they are find in limestone (old ocean 150 000 000 years old, fossil are commonly found) They are brownish red to black and rarely oxidised pyrite colour when freshly extracted from the broken calcareous stones.

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Took this photo, using a Contax 60mm F/2.8 Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar T* MM C/Y Mount Lens on my K5 (thanks to the Multi-mount PK+MM for Pentax weather sealed DSLR). (pict is processed and cropped.)

I use these great Carl Zeiss lenses : Distagon* 35mmF2.8 ; Sonnar* 135mmF2.8 ; a Planar* 50mmF1.4, and Makro-Planar 60mm F/2.8 on my Pentax K-5 thanks to this system !

By night

Bali Indonesia

Old Eastern Ave. Bridge, Toronto

overedited?

portrait of a good friend of mine

view on black

The nicest parts of this long sakura path I think is where the canal curves.

The canal waters are very clean, you can clearly see large wild carp feeding on waterweeds at the canal bottom.

Tackling colors with this RAW, moving away from Sony defaults, beyond mere tweaks to hue and WB or colour balance, got to experiment.

The previous shot was still with default Sony colour profile.

Can't help but to also wonder if it's the overly cold colour signature of this Sony Zeiss 24-70mm f4.0, my shots with this lens never grew on me.

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Kyoto, Japan. Shot with Pentax K-5 and 16-50mm ED AL SDM.

Along the Path of Philosophy in Kyoto

I met him at the Bluebird coffeeshop in Amsterdam and he immediately begin to talk to me about the meaning of love and 'god' money in the world and so on...

It has been a brief encounter with a really interesting person who surely is going to remain in my mind for a long time yet.....

Tezukayama, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan.

via Instagram www.instagram.com/p/BNiih8BjZ78/

He took the business of having his picture taken very seriously; such an interesting face.

Guebwiller, France

“Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.”

― Samuel Beckett

seen this today morning while going to office. Didn't had my DSLR with me. hence captured with mobile resulted lower quality.

llille flea market

The Philosopher III

Over the clouds she recognizes:

This is my Head

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Der Philosoph auf dem Gipfel

Mit seiner Trophäe über den Wolken angekommen

erkennt er: Das ist mein eigener Kopf.

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Die Beute des Philosophen ist sein eigenes Ego.

Er könnte auch ausrufen: Tat tvam asi

Der Gipfel der Selbstkonfrontation und der Selbsterkenntnis zeigt gleichzeitig, wie unbewusst das naive Ego-Bewusstsein ist und war.

Ich weiß, dass ich nichts wusste. Ich weiß, dass ich nichts weiß.

(Frei nach Sokrates :-))

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She's holding a copy of Martin Heidegger's book "Being and Time".

These berries were just so great I needed to use them in a photo. They were delicious!

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These are the last photos of my project Liberty Plaza, for now.

It was a great project and really fun to build ! I hope you enjoyed the photos as much as I did ! If you missed any, here.is the set containing all the photos of this project.

Thanks for your support !

Now it's time to move on to other great projects like:

-another Clone Wars story

-more mechs

-a Force Unleashed MoC

and the one project I am most exited about

A Lego Mass Effect RPG group ! Please, support this project by telling us (Agent "Wash" Washington and me) if you are interested, here.

EDIT: The group has been created. It's called N7 Special Forces. Feel free to join !

Thanks again for you support !

Toby the Weimaraner pondering life in the Scottish Borders

ODC: Favourite time of the day

Urfa ’22

Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum

Central Şanlıurfa, Roman Age

Best Viewed Large

The Pesquet's Parrot is a highly specialised frugivore, feeding almost exclusively on a few species of figs. Flowers and nectar have also been reported. At least in parts of its range, it is seasonally nomadic in response to the availability of fruits. The bare part of the head is presumably an adaption to avoid feather-matting from sticky fruits. Little is known about its breeding habits in the wild, but the two eggs are laid in a nest in a large, hollow tree. It is typically seen in pairs or groups up to 20 individuals. In flight it alternates between rapid flapping and short glides.

~ Wikipedia

Along the Philosopher's Walk, Kyoto Sept 2015

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Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) - Le trouble du philosophe [The philosophers trouble] aka Le repos du philosophe or Mannequins on the seashore (1922). In the collection of the Museo del Novecento, Milan.

Bust of Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle inside the Long Room in the Old Library, Trinity College.

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Marble sculpture at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark.

My museum collection : www.flickr.com/photos/9619972@N08/collections/72157702215...