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Yepeee....I won in the coveted Sinulog photo contest! I never expected it considering I'm a newbie against so many good photographers around (600+) and over 7,000 entries! My year is up for a good start...I'm super elated!

Over a hundred ships and boats joined this year annual fluvial parade in honor the the Sto. Nino (Child Jesus). Its was my second time to witness such event the first time when I was just 5 years old. This time I had my camera in tow together with hundreds of photographers. I was a spectacle to see as well as enjoyable as I've met many fellow photographers from all over the world.

The fluvial procession is a reenactment of the coming of Magellan to the old Cebu Village, in particular his landing at the old beach which is now the heart of the city. Over 440 years ago, the Spaniards led by Magellan landed in the Cebu village of Rajah Humabon on April17, 1521. On the shore he planted he planted a cross which is said to be extant up to his time. Today, the city’s busiest street thoroughfare, Magallanes, is found where the cross is still preserved and now venerated as a relic. This historical chapter, Magellan’s coming, is reenacted as the advent of the new faith (www.sinulog.ph).

@ Sinulog Fluvial Parade, Mandaue-Mactan Bridge, Mandaue City, The Philippines

Vigneti del Castello di Poggio alle Mura (Castello Banfi)

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Vineyards of the Castle of Poggio alle Mura (Castello Banfi)

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Back in 2003 I traveled to Yellowstone National Park with one of my first

digital cameras, an Olympus C5050Z. I had recently read on the Internet

about a guy who had stitched together a 1 Giga-pixel image and since my

field of view was limited I thought I'd try my hand at it. Needless to say,

when I got home and tried using his technique my results were less than

stellar. A shame since the scenery was so stunning. While browsing the

old images and thinking man, I wish I had my Nikon D300 back then. Then I

remembered that I had been having considerable luck stitching with newer

versions of Photoshop. Piecing the images together wasn't easy as it is

with my Nikon images but with a lot of work it finally started to come together. Back when I took this I was still new to digital photography and shooting in Program Mode so needless to say, none of the images matched exposure or metering. A bit

more work in Photoshop and finally it started to look like an image. I

still wish I had the Nikon back in 2003 but it's equivalent (or

approximation of what was available at the time) would have cost more than

my car.

So here, hopefully for your enjoyment, is the finished result of the storm that blew in over Yellowstone Falls in Yellowstone National Park. This is actually the lower Yellowstone Falls. The upper falls are just around the bend and out of sight. The

lower falls drop in to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and the name is

fitting. Bright yellow and orange rocks surround the falls and steep canyon

falls. It's not hard to understand why this became the world's first

National Park. The lower falls is a 308ft drop. The blue green river

water is a stark contrast against the yellow rocks. The roar of the falls

can be heard clearly from where the picture was taken. More than 63,000

gallons of water flow over the fall every second in the spring time. The

image was taken from the famous Painters Point which is a small outcropping

that extends into the canyon providing one of the most awesome sites you

will ever see. The only place that has perhaps moved me more than this

view is that of coming through the tunnel at Vista Point in Yosemite

National Park. The two parks are in stark contrast. Yellowstone is carved

by fire while Yosemite is carved by ice. Two places I would put at the top

of any nature lovers list of places to see in your lifetime.

I hope you enjoyed the image and if you read this, the story behind the

picture. Because technology continues to improve, I never throw out any

digital image. Storage is cheap. Loosing this image would have cost me

much more.

Darv

LiquidMoonlight.com

© Darvin Atkeson

California Photographer

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wow does the quality of this picture look amazing or what? i think soo. anyways. I've come to this conclusion..i loathe the action of assuming. I don't like it when i do it, or when anyone does it. It never makes anything better, so why do it. People that think to much, tend to assume a lot, hehe that's an assumption because i'm sure not everyone who thinks a lot assumes. I really wish that action wasn't possible. I mean you never know what someone is thinking, so you really can't assume.

So today was chill. I made strawberry pancakes(i cut up real strawberries and put them in the batter yum) for lunch.. but extreme,haha, EPIC FAIL. you know why? i put wayyyyy to much baking powder. instead of 3 TEASPOONS i put 3 TABLESPOONS ahaha so my pancakes were uber big and puffy(pictures in comments). It's funny i've made pancakes from scratch and i've never done that, i was so hungry i didn't read the recipe ahah. also wheat flour tastes sooo different then white flour, and cane sugar tastes sooo different then ruglar sugar as well. It's probably because they are both healthier and in their natural state. the pancakes tasted soo cinnamony to me..though there was no cinnamon in them. I was getting a bit flustered and annoyed, and cooking never makes me angry or flustered, i'm quite patient with it. haha. so that was fun. My dad made and yummy spaghetti dinner, though i took out the meat in the meat sauce...they were making fun of me for that. jonel texted/called me. hehe my hibernating baby. so cute. we talked from 5:30pm-almost 8pm:D he is the greatest guy on the planet. the best, funniest, most understanding, great listener, sweet, unique, random, guy i've ever met. he's so laid back, down to earth, and chill..then at times crazy, wild and silly. he's also extremely beautiful, he's so accepting of me and i'm so crazy and silly and hyper on the phone, from lack of talking to him i get all hyper and crazy. it could just be because as the days pass by more and more i'm falling deeper in love with him. he's got me in a spell i sware. i was joking with him telling him"what if i moved back to florida?" *jonel's voice gets all excited*"are you going to?!!" "hehe do you want me too?" *jonel even more anticipated and excited then before*" are you going to?" haha him and adela really really want me to move back. Even though i miss florida like crazy, i don't want to move back, yet. Maybe in two years. idk i love california. though i miss my home even more. it's crazy when you live somewhere, you don't always appreciate it and what it has to offer but then when you move away, you see what it had, and you wish you appreciated it more. I miss florida a lot. It was my home for the past 8 years, and soooo much happened in that little time. My whole life went upside down then back up again in 8 years. It was incredible. though things happened that i didn't like..i will probably always call florida my home..more than chicago..maybe because i only spent a 11 years of my life in chicago and in those 11 years, i really can't remember much. The memories i do remember are vague, yet wonderful. I loved chicago but florida is more of my home now, it's more me. Chicago has changed a lot since i was there, and i don't like what it has become..regardless of no snow in florida i don't think i will ever go back to chicago. AHAH i so got off topic. Ah well. i'm sure you don't want to hear about jonel anyways. ok well i love you life, and jonel, and ee everything. i need to go make my lunch because i'm getting up at 5:45am(eep) to open tomorrow and i work until 3pm. how fun diddy fun. hope jonel passes his test tomorrow. hope everyone had a fun sunday. i know i did. and i love all you flickr friends. you say such nice things to me

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No doubt about words of this song, here we are Italian and English, or search the translation in your language on the network.

Excuse me Mr - Ben Harper >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dNbymstZjs

Mi scusi signore

Ha un po’ di tempo

oppure lei è così importante

che (il tempo) si ferma apposta per lei?

Mi scusi signore

Mi presta orecchio

oppure lei non soltanto è cieco

ma non ci sente neanche?

Mi scusi signore

Non è suo il petrolio nel mare?

E l'inquinamento dell'aria, signore,

di chi potrebbe essere?

Mi scusi signore

Ma sono un signore anch'io,

e lei sta dando una cattiva nomea al termine signore

signore come lei

Quindi sto togliendo il termine signore

davanti al suo nome

Perché è un signore come lei

che ci fa vergognare a noi signori

è un signore come lei

che ci fa vergognare a noi signori

Ed io ho visto abbastanza per sapere

che ho (già) visto troppo

Mi scusi signore

Non riesce a vedere i bambini che muoiono?

Lei dice di non poterli aiutare

(ma) signore, lei non ci sta nemmeno provando

Mi scusi signore

dia uno sguardo intorno

Mr. "sto solo dando una controllata"

e vedrà che (la situazione) sta precipitando

Mi scusi signore

Ma sono un signore anch'io,

e lei sta dando una cattiva nomea al termine signore

signore come lei

Quindi sto togliendo il termine signore

davanti al suo nome

Perché è un signore come lei

che ci fa vergognare a noi signori

è un signore come lei

che ci fa vergognare a noi signori

Ed io ho visto abbastanza per sapere

che ho (già) visto troppo

Perchè, signore, quando stai bussando alla porta del Paradiso

(lascia che te lo dica, signore)

allora è troppo tardi

perché, signore, quando tu sei lì (davanti)

loro non ti chiedono quanto hai messo da parte

tutto quello che vogliono sapere è quanto hai dato

Mi scusi signore

Ma sono un signore anch'io,

e lei sta dando una cattiva nomea al termine signore

signore come lei

Quindi sto togliendo il termine signore

davanti al suo nome

Perché è un signore come lei

che ci fa vergognare a noi signori

è un signore come lei

che ci fa vergognare a noi signori

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Excuse me Mr, do you have the time?

Or are you so important that it stands still for you?

Excuse me Mr, won't you lend me your ears?

Or are you not only blind but do you not hear?

Excuse me Mr but isn't that you're oil in the sea?

And the pollution in the air Mr, who's could that be?

So excuse me Mr, but I'm a Mr too

And you're giving Mr a bad name, Mr like you

So im taking the Mr from out infront of your name

Coz it's the Mr like you that puts the rest of us to shame

It's the Mr like you that puts the rest of us to shame

And I, I've seen enough

I've seen enough to know,

That I've seen too much

Excuse me Mr can't you see the children dying?

You say that you can help them Mr your not even trying

Excuse me Mr, just take a look around

Oh Mr, just look up and you will, you will see it coming now

Excuse me Mr but I'm a, I'm a Mr too,

Your giving Mr a bad name, Mr like you

So I'm taking the Mr from out infront of your name

Coz it's the Mr like you that puts the rest of us to shame

It's the Mr like you that puts the rest of us to shame

And I, I've seen enough, i've seen and i've seen and

I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much

I've seen enough, I have seen enough to know, that I have seen too much

See coz Mr when you're rattling on heavens gate

By then it's too late

Coz Mr when you get there they don't ask they don't ask

What you saved

All you wanna know, Mr is what you gave

So excuse me Mr, but I'm a Mr too,

And you're giving Mr a bad name Mr like you

So I'm taking the Mr from out infront of you're name

Coz it's the Mr, Mr like you that puts the rest of us to shame

It's the Mr like you that puts the rest of us to shame

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this is also old, from september. i was going back through old pictures and editing them since i was bored...i'm going to try to finally take some new pictures tomorrow, though.

model is liz and her lovely olympus :)

go write in my formspring!

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The Great Wall of China was built over 2,000 years ago, by Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China during the Qin (Ch'in) Dynasty (221 B.C - 206 B.C.). In Chinese the wall is called "Wan-Li Qang-Qeng" which means 10,000-Li Long Wall (10,000 Li = about 5,000 km).

After subjugating and uniting China from seven Warring States, the emperor connected and extended four old fortification walls along the north of China that originated about 700 B.C. (over 2500 years ago). Armies were stationed along the wall as a first line of defense against the invading nomadic Hsiung Nu tribes north of China (the Huns). Signal fires from the Wall provided early warning of an attack.

The Great Wall is one of the largest building construction projects ever completed. It stretches across the mountains of northern China, winding north and northwest of Beijing. It is constructed of masonry, rocks and packed-earth. It was over 5,000 km (=10,000 Li) long. Its thickness ranged from about 4.5 to 9 meters (15 to 30 feet) and was up to 7.5 meters (25 feet) tall.

During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Great Wall was enlarged to 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles) and renovated over a 200 year period, with watch-towers and cannons added.

The Great Wall can be seen from Earth orbit, but, contrary to legend, is not visible from the moon, according to astronauts Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell, and Jim Irwin.

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El monasterio de Sant Cugat es una antigua abadía benedictina situada en la localidad catalana de San Cugat del Vallés (España). El monasterio, construido en el siglo IX, destaca por su impresionante claustro. Fue el monasterio de mayor importancia de todo el condado de Barcelona. Los orígenes del monasterio se sitúan en el siglo IX cuando se decidió unir la iglesia que contenía los restos de San Cucufate o San Cucufato (Cugat en catalán) con una fortificación anexa. La pequeña iglesia, construida en el siglo V, era un pequeño recinto de planta cuadrada alrededor de la que se cree existía ya una comunidad de monjes. Sin embargo, no se tienen noticias documentadas de la existencia de esta comunidad hasta el año 878. En los inicios del siglo X la importancia del monasterio empieza a ser notable. Los abades de San Cugat tomaban parte en actos de relevancia y las posesiones de la comunidad se amplían llegando a tener tierras desde la zona del Penedés hasta la del Montseny. En el año 985, el ataque de las tropas sarracenas capitaneadas por Almanzor afectó al monasterio aunque no causó daños excesivamente graves. El abad que regía el monasterio en esa época, Odón, inició las obras de reconstrucción del cenobio. A finales del siglo XI, Berenguer Ramón II dispuso que el monasterio quedara sometido al de San Ponce de Tomieres, en la zona de la Provenza, lo que creó discrepancias entre los monjes de Sant Cugat. El abad de San Ponce se trasladó hasta el monasterio catalán y aquellos monjes que estaban en desacuerdo con su gestión fueron expulsados. Sin embargo, el obispo de Barcelona reclamó sus derechos sobre el monasterio que volvió a quedar sometido a la diócesis barcelonesa. Fue en ese periodo cuando más se ampliaron los dominios de San Cugat. Quedaron sujetos al mismo los monasterios de Santa Cecília, el de Sant Llorenç del Munt, Sant Pau del Camp, Sant Pere de Clará y el de Sant Salvador de Breda. A mediados del siglo XII se iniciaron las obras de construcción de un nuevo monasterio. Se amplió la iglesia existente en una obra que se prolongó en el tiempo, ya que su construcción no finalizó hasta el año 1337.

En el año 1350 se iniciaron las obras de fortificación del monasterio. El rey Pedro III amplió esta fortificación añadiendo algunas torres de guardia. Sin embargo, en este periodo se inició el declive de Sant Cugat. El abad Pere Busquets suprimió la elección directa del abad por parte de los monjes del monasterio. Los nuevos abades eran nombrados desde la diócesis y algunos de ellos ni siquiera visitaban el monasterio. Aunque se siguieron realizando algunas obras, San Cugat ya no tenía el poder de antaño. Durante la Guerra de Sucesión Española, el monasterio fue ocupado por las tropas del Archiduque Carlos, ocupación que causó graves desperfectos en el edificio. Se llevó a cabo una restauración que finalizó en 1789.

En 1835 los monjes abandonaron el monasterio; el abandono fue causado en parte por la ley de desamortización que obligaba a las órdenes religiosas a abandonar sus pertenencias, y en parte por el asalto de un grupo de habitantes de la zona. Sant Cugat quedó abandonado hasta 1851, año en el que la Comisión de Monumentos Históricos decidió restaurarlo.En 1931 fue declarado Monumento Histórico Artístico.

Tal vez lo más destacado de todo el conjunto del monasterio de San Cucufato es su impresionante claustro. Se trata de un claro ejemplo del arte románico catalán y fue construido en el siglo XII. En el siglo XVI se le añadió un segundo piso y se construyó también el atrio de entrada. Con una longitud de más de 30 metros, el claustro es obra del artista Arnau Gatell. Su planta es casi cuadrada y tiene arcos de medio punto, apoyados sobre pares de columnas. Cada una de estas columnas está decorada con capitel es finamente elaborados, con detalles variados que van desde la representación de animales a las escenas bíblicas. Se pueden contra 72 pares de capitales. Otro elemento destacado es la basílica, construida en este caso en estilo gótico. El edificio, de 52 metros de largo por 23 de ancho, consta de tres naves cubiertas con bóvedas sostenidas por columnas. Llama la atención el rosetón de 8,2 metros de diámetro, muy parecido al de la catedral de Barcelona y a la de Tarragona. La iglesia contiene un retablo gótico, conocido como el retablo de Todos los Santos, realizado en 1375 por el artista Pere Serra.

The monastery of Sant Cugat is a former Benedictine abbey located in the Catalan town of Sant Cugat del Valles (Spain). The monastery, built in the ninth century, noted for its impressive cloister. It was the most important monastery throughout the county of Barcelona. The origins of the monastery is located in the ninth century when he decided to join the church containing the remains of St. Cucufate or San Cucuphas (Cugat in Catalan) with a fortification attached. The small church built in the V century, was a small square enclosure around which people believe there was already a community of monks. However, there are reports documented the existence of this community until the year 878. In the early tenth century the importance of the monastery began to be noticeable. The abbots of San Cugat took part in important events and possessions of the community is coming to have land extending from the Penedes area to Montseny. In the year 985, the attack of the troops commanded by Mansur Saracens hit the monastery but did not damage too severe. The abbot, who ruled the monastery at that time, Odo began the reconstruction of the monastery. In the late XI, Berenguer Ramon II decreed that the monastery becomes subject to St Ponce de Tomieres, in the Provence area, creating discrepancies between the monks of Sant Cugat. The abbot of St. Ponce moved to the Catalan monastery and the monks who disagreed with his administration were expelled. However, the bishop of Barcelona claimed their rights over the monastery which was once again subjected to the diocese of Barcelona. It was during this period when most were extended domains San Cugat. Were liable to the same monastery of Santa Cecilia, the Sant Llorenç del Munt, Sant Pau del Camp, Sant Pere de Clará and Sant Salvador de Breda. A mid-twelfth century began construction of a new monastery. Existing church was expanded in a work that lasted over time, since its construction was not completed until 1337.

In the year 1350, work began defense of the monastery. King Pedro III extended this fortification by adding a few guard towers. However, in this period began the decline of Sant Cugat. The abbot Pere Busquets abolished the direct election of the abbot by the monks. The new abbots were appointed from the diocese and some of them even visited the monastery. Although it continued to make some plays, San Cugat longer had the power of old. During the War of Spanish Succession, the monastery was occupied by troops of the Archduke Charles, an occupation that caused serious damage to the building. It undertook a restoration that ended in 1789.

In 1835 the monks left the monastery, the abandonment was caused in part by the law that forced confiscation of religious orders to abandon their belongings, and in part by the assault of a group of locals. Sant Cugat was abandoned until 1851, when the Landmarks Commission decided restaurarlo.En 1931 was declared a Historic Artistic Monument.

Perhaps the highlight of the whole of the monastery of San Cucuphas is its impressive cloister. This is a clear example of Catalan Romanesque art and was built in the twelfth century. In the sixteenth century added a second floor and also built the entrance hall. With a length of over 30 meters, the cloister is work by the artist Arnau Gatell. Its plan is almost square and has round arches, supported on pairs of columns. Each of these columns is decorated with capitals is finely produced, with detail varied, ranging from animals to represent biblical scenes. You can expect 72 pairs of capital. Another feature is the basilica, built in Gothic style in this case. The building, 52 meters long by 23 wide, has three naves covered with vaults supported by columns. It is striking rosette of 8.2 meters in diameter, much like the cathedral of Barcelona and Tarragona. The church contains a Gothic altarpiece, known as the altar of All Saints, made in 1375 by artist Pere Serra.

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A prayer to Benazir Bhutto was held on Jan. 3, 2008 in Liaqat Bagh park in Rawalpindi, where she was murdered a week before.

Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set

Part of Pakistani Elections (Recommended as a slideshow)

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La fotografía la tome en el museo de "La infancia recordada", se encuentra en Defensa 219, en San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hay muchos juguetes expuestos donados por los vecinos y la verdad que es un túnel del tiempo hacia la nostalgia. El museo esta abierto de lunes a domingo de 11 a 19. Lunes y miércoles entrada gratuita, el resto de la semana los adultos pagan $1.

{El escrito en la imagen es una estrofa de la canción República Feliz - Joaquín Sabina}

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“Y estos derechos... a respetarlos, ¿eh? ¡No vaya a pasar como con los diez mandamientos!” (Mafalda)

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So I've been playing around with composites more. Its really amazing to be able to create a world right on your computer. I often have trouble justifying that it's photography, when it comes down to it, it's not. Because it was always something I loved to do, and so many people told me to go into graphics instead. Although I'm sure I could eventually use my own stock photos and it could be photography?

Stock credit:

Sky

Clouds

Grass

The rest is my own.

(Original picture of me, here.)

Also, I really enjoy doing sort of an informal 365. I never really thought I could do one if I was actually in one, but flickr in general motivates me to create lots of work. More work, and more creative work, than what I do while in school. Which is sad.

Letter and digit mosaics set

Created with fd's Mosaic Maker

1. A Mosiac, 2. B Mosaic, 3. C Mosaic, 4. D Mosaic, 5. E Mosaic, 6. F Mosaic, 7. G Mosaic, 8. H Mosaic, 9. I Mosaic, 10. J Mosaic, 11. K Mosaic, 12. L Mosaic, 13. M Mosaic, 14. N Mosaic, 15. O Mosaic, 16. P Mosaic, 17. Q Mosaic, 18. R Mosaic, 19. S Mosaic, 20. T Mosaic, 21. U Mosaic, 22. V Mosaic, 23. W Mosaic, 24. X Mosaic, 25. Y Mosaic, 26. Z Mosaic, 27. 0 Mosaic, 28. 1 Mosaic, 29. 2 Mosaic, 30. 3 Mosaic, 31. 4 Mosaic, 32. 5 Mosaic, 33. 6 Mosaic, 34. 7 Mosaic, 35. 8 Mosaic, 36. 9 Mosaic

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I love this picture because it is a perfect example of how something so simple as a character meet and greet can be so magical for the children. Alice was quick to take the girls by the hands and began telling her stories. These are the things that make Disney special. How could anyone not smile at this kind of thing?

One of the things that I love about Disneyland that you’ll rarely find at Walt Disney World, is how the characters will spontaneously show up without notice or character handlers and just start their story telling and signing autographs and picture taking. …just another little piece of the puzzle that makes Disneyland outstanding and so very magical.

A little about this picture:

HDR Orton done in Dynamic Photo HDR to give it the “dreamy” effect. After that I imported to PSPX2, duplicated the layer, desaturated and brought the color layer to the top. Then rubbed away the background to show b&w. I did this because the background was distracting. I would have liked Olivia’s face (left) a touch more in the picture, but that was how I framed it. So to balance it out a little I cropped in from the right and down from the top a little, also cutting a little more of the busy background out.

Hope you like it!

Alice In Wonderland

Main Street USA

Disneyland

Anaheim, California

August, 2008

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend everyone!

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Bridge that connects the upper and lower peninsula of Michigan. It's pretty long, 5 miles from shore to shore (although it didn't really seem like that).

I have no idea if this looks correct on your guys' monitor because I have been having some serious issues with CS4 wacking out on me for the past 3 days. Everything I save as an sRGB JPEG comes out way darker than it's supposed to and it's driving me freakin crazy. I have no idea what happened or how it happened. I even uninstalled and then reinstalled Photoshop. The only way I could figure out how to get around it is to save the JPEG in the Dell 2007WFP color space. Seriously hate photoshop right now and would like to kick it in the face. Hard.

EDIT: I figured out that I had somehow toggled on Proof Colors which changed the file to CMYK and I guess that's why it was coming out strange. So happy to be done with this issue. It's so frustrating when PS is acting weird and you have no idea why or how to fix it. Sometimes I think it's too complicated of a program for my own good.

(borrowed) D90

Sigma10-20mm

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Coming in from Fresno I rolled in to Yosemite a bit late in the day and was treated to this very much Rembrandt view of Yosemite Valley with the bright mid day sun was beaming down on Bridal Veil falls making it the spot light of the image. The lower half of El Capitan glowed a golden hue while the top remained dull gray due to the building afternoon clouds that are typical in the park in the spring time. It looked like some painting that Albert Bierstadt painted but it was in fact the real deal. The lighting was so

perfect and I rushed to get the camera set up and this was my first shot. As expected, it didn't last long and soon the brilliant white gleam of Bridal Veil Falls was dimmed by the sun. I have seen the park hundreds of times but each time I come through the tunnel from Highway 49 the view takes my breath away as I exit the tunnel. The parking lot was full with the exception of one parking slot and I quickly grabbed it. I couldn't have

asked for better lighting and this will undoubtedly be one of my personal top images on Flickr in the near future. Every so often you just get there are the right time and this was certainly one of them. At the time of this posting, this Yosemite Valley shot reigns as my Windows 7 desktop wallpaper.

For those of you that have not had the fortune to see Yosemite, let me take you on a small tour of all the features in this image. Yosemite Valley lies about dead center of the California Sierra Nevada Mountains. It was carved by several receding glaciers over several ice ages that covered most of North America and the flat valley floor later formed as Yosemite Lake filled with sediment. Today most of Yosemite Valley is forested but there are still several large meadows hidden deep in the valley.

This photograph was taken at the Tunnel View which is a few hundred feet below Inspiration Point where Yosemite Valley was fist viewed by the Mariposa Battalion. To the left you can see the single largest piece of exposed granite known as El Capitan. It is Yosemite Valley's single largest icon standing at just under 3000ft (910 meters). To the right, beautiful Bridal Veil Falls which is often lifted by strong winds as they enter Yosemite Valley and whip the falls in to a lacey mosaic of water and rock giving it the name Bridal Veil. In the far distance, you can see Half Dome and just to its left, Clouds Rest both suitably named. I was fortunate to get the cloud cover this time of year. The Icelandic volcano which has caused much havoc amongst European travelers has extended California's rainy season in to mid May and as a result, several storms have

recently blown though Yosemite. Just two days before this shot, a storm blew though and dumped several inches of snow on the upper elevations.

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For the technically inclined who want to know all the gory details:

Nikon D300

Nikkor 15-55mm

26mm (39mm equivalent)

Mode - Manual

f/2.8

1/1600s

ISO 200

ND Grad Filter

Circular Polarizer

Center Weighted Exposure

Manfrotto Carbon Fiber Tripod

RC Remote Release

Original Image Size 4288 x 2848

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JPEG file used with only minor editing.

Processed in Photoshop CS5 (Trial Version)

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Granted the tripod and remote release was probably not required for this shot but I find it is always best to use a tripod. It also helps as I am often asked to take pictures for many of the tourist and wanting them to have a good California experience I always oblige their request and just continue to click off shots on with my remote as I take their shot and talk about the view. It is also a great place to meet fellow Flickr photographers.

Hope you find this one as enjoyable as I do and please feel free to use the Original Size as your Windows or Mac desktop background.

Prints of this shot are available upon request in most sizes. Please contact me for details.

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Camera : Pentax K-7

Lens : Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM

Exposure : 0,006s (1/160)

Aperture : f/2.5

Focal Length : 50 mm

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Luc Planson, a friend of mine, and I are making a 50|50 in the same time !!!

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"When we say things like "people don't change" it drives scientists crazy because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy. Matter. It's always changing, morphing, merging, growing, dying.

It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting things be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing despite every scientific indication that anything in this lifetime is permanent.

Change is constant.

How we experience change that's up to us. It can feel like death or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline.

Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Like at any moment, we can be born all over again."

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Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir. Sudddenly, all people, coming and going, formed a perfect line of silhouettes. I took a shot and felt uneasy: there was really a weird sense of them being after me, vaguely threatening, oppressive, like an army of zombies with no face in the backlight ! A second later, the pattern broke down and they were just people enjoying the late sun...

Part of "L'autre passerelle"

I'm Proud Of This

This is a fleshy perennial which grows on coastal cliffs and rocks ! The pale pink 5-petalled flower (8 - 12mm across) differs from other Sea spurreys in that it doesn't have a white centre ! The fact that the flowers have equal size petals and sepals also helps to differentiate this wildflower ! Each flower has 10 stamens, the narrow, flattened leaves have fine points and the plant, which blooms from June to September, reaches about 20cm high ! It is one of the native plants of Ireland and it belongs to the Caryophyllaceae family !

www.wildflowersofireland.net/index.php

Having purchased a wild flower book late last year, I was attracted to it being sectioned by colour, I decided to give it a go and found this little gem ! As part of I.D. clarification I found an interesting site from which I took the above info' and have E-mailed, providing my flickr account link, hoping that I' m right ~

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Hi all,

This was taken during a walk with some of the guys the other evening, Nanagyei, Eric, Ian, Tyopfly and Jestoni.. It was a fun night, and I think we'll be going out again very soon.. I borrowed Jestoni's 10-22mm lens for this shot..

Camera: Canon EOS 7D

Exposure: 15 secs

Aperture: f/7.1

Focal Length: 10mm

ISO Speed: 320

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The Monastery of Sant Benet de Bages is a former Benedictine monastery, in the Catalan comarca of Bages. The Romanesque monastery was thoroughly restored at the beginning of the twentieth century by the Catalan architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch. The monastery was founded about 950 by the noble Salla and his consort Ricarda, of the house of the viscounts of Osona . According to the founding legend, Salla traveled to Rome to have his institution authorized, and to have it depend directly on the Holy See, the usual method for preserving the community from interference from the bishop— in this case of Vic— in whose diocese it lay. The abbey church was consecrated 3 December 972, witnessed by a gathering of notables: Borrell II, Count of Barcelona, the bishops Frugifer of Vic, Guisad of Urgell and Pere of Barcelona, the viscount Guadald of Osona, and three of the four offspring of the recently deceased founder, his son Isarn and the sisters Quíxol and Ego, at the head of witnesses both laymen and priests, in a grand ceremonial recorded in the surviving act of consecration. The community was dedicated to the Holy Trinity and to Benedict of Nursia (Sant Benét in Catalan) founder of the order, and Peter and Andrew, all guarantors of its future orthodoxy. The founder secured dispensations that the future abbots would be chosen from among their descendents, making the abbey a form of proprietary church, an agreement that would soon lead to disputes among the various branches of their lineage as to choice of abbots.

From 965, the abbey church held the supposed relics of Saint Valentine, enclosed in a wooden reliquary with plates of silver depicting miracles of Saint Valentine, which was rediscovered in 1863 in the church of Navarcles. At the beginning of the eleventh century the monastery passed under the direction of the Abbey of Saint Peter of Tomeras at Narbonne, from which the community freed itself in 1108. In 1125 Sant Benet de Bages suffered from an attack by Moors that required a rebuilding, financed by local nobles who required in return the right to be buried in its consecrated ground. The most splendid age of Sant Benet de Bages was in the fourteenth century, until the Black Death left the community with only two survivors, in a period that witnessed the beginning of its decline. On 9 November 1593, by order of Pope Clement VIII the community passed under the direction of the Abbey of Montserrat, and remained so until it was suppressed in 1820, serving as a place of retirement for Montserrat's community of monks. By the "law of desamortización" of 1835, all religious orders in Spain were required to render upo their possessions. The crumbling ancient structure attracted the interest of intellectuals who organised visits to it in the late nineteenth century. The architect Puig i Cadafalch and the painter Ramon Casas encouraged the mother of Casas to buy the property in 1907; in 1910 it passed into the hands of Casas, who commissioned Puig i Cadafalch to restore it. Since 2000, when it was purchased from Casas' heirs it has belonged to the Caixa de Manresa, a financial institution that has undertaken its maintenance.

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Hedley Lamarr: I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists. --Blazing Saddles, 1974

"The last service was conducted in it in 1932, when almost the entire population finally left Bodie. Since then it has been vandalized, including having the original oilcloth that had the 10 commandments painted on it, being torn down and stolen. There is a large size wire mesh blocking the entrance, but plenty of room to easily see in and take pictures. You can still see the old wood burning stoves used to heat the room during those terrible winter Sundays.

Also, many of the original pews and stained glass are still present and in tact. The small wooden structure at the front right corner of the church is a wood shed that was added on years later." --Bodie.net

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Dear Flickr friends,

As promised, this is the first image coming from the project I've been working on, 'The Heliades'.

Here is the description of the series, the reason which stands/stood behind these works.

" While reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses, I came across an episode that changed my vision of my surroundings forever: the ‘Heliades’, daughters of the Sun, after the death of their brother Phaeton are transformed into Poplar trees on the banks of the Po river.

I have always loved to walk on those banks, but now, every time I stop and listen, it almost feels like I can hear their laments and whispers in the wind."

I'm also pleased to say that this series received four honorable mentions at the 2012 International Photography Awards.

Some self promotion: don't forget to take a look at My Facebook Page: Have a look and help me growing by sharing and liking it!

Hope you're all doing great.

Details

- CANON 5d Mark II ir, EF 70-200@191, f/8, 15 s, ISO 100

- Mirror Lockup, Remote Shutter

- Lee Big Stopper (10 stops ND filter)

- Tripod

The shot

Shot on the banks of the Po river, not far from where I live.

The Processing

Photoshop:

- Added many soft light layers to adjust the light;

- Added some custom gradients to equalize the light;

- Added a few curves to improve contrasts;

- Applied Noise Reduction

- Resized for the Web (1200px);

- Applied an Unsharp Mask to slightly improve contrast;

- Smart Sharpen + More accurate (On luminosity 'blending mode');

- Framing and Signature.

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Where: Sweden, Östergötland, Bjärka säby. google maps

When: 20100621

How and why: Chased this sunset for quite a while as I was stuck deep in the forest and glimpsed the yellow glow through the trees, an hour later and I got down to the water, mounted the 50mm and added the 10 stop nd filter for a long exposure. The colours are genuine.

Editing: Minor adjustments.

Exposure: 300s

Aperture: f/16.0

Focal Length: 50 mm

ISO Speed: 200

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In 1580, tijdens de Tachtigjarige Oorlog, volgde de stad Groningen de noordelijke stadhouder Rennenberg in zijn keuze voor Spanje. De stad werd toen bevoorraad vanuit Duitsland, via een weg op de zandrug (tange) die door het Bourtangermoeras voerde.

Om deze bevoorradingsweg te blokkeren gaf Willem van Oranje opdracht op de weg een vesting aan te leggen. Na zijn dood werd het werk voortgezet. In 1594 werd de stad Groningen heroverd, en in 1594 werd de vesting Bourtange onderdeel van de grensverdediging van de drie noordelijke provincies Groningen, Friesland en Drenthe.

De vesting werd onder andere in 1665 verbeterd, en in 1672 toen Bernhard von Galen Groningen aanviel. In 1742 bereikte de vesting de grootste omvang. Doordat het Bourtangermoeras steeds meer verdroogde, en de vuurkracht van geschut groter werd, nam de militaire betekenis van de vesting echter af.

Opheffing

In 1851 werd de vesting officieel opgeheven, en werd Bourtange een agrarisch dorp in Westerwolde. De grachten werden met de aarden wallen gevuld en de militaire gebouwen en percelen werden verkocht.

Reconstructie

Rond 1960 liep het dorp leeg. Bourtange was niet met de tijd meegegaan en was geen plaats waar jongeren zich vestigden. De gemeente Vlagtwedde liet vervolgens de vesting herbouwen in de staat zoals die in 1742 geweest was. Men vindt dus thans bij de grens tussen Duitsland en Nederland (Groningen) een vesting uit vervlogen tijden, die vrijelijk te bezoeken is.

Tegenwoordig

De vesting is tegenwoordig een toeristische attractie van betekenis. Naast de volledig gereconstrueerde vestingwerken vindt de bezoeker er diverse bezienswaardigheden: een Marktplein met eeuwenoude lindebomen, vijf musea, winkels en restaurants, een historisch hotel (de kamers zijn voorzien van een bedstee) en een trouwzaal in het voormalige kruithuis. Daarnaast is de vestingmolen herbouwd en is de rosmolen gereconstrueerd. In het zomerseizoen worden er historische evenementen in de vesting georganiseerd, waaronder het grootste reënactmentevenement van Nederland: de Slag om Bourtange. De kerk van Bourtange bevat nog diverse overblijfselen van de oorspronkelijke vestingkerk, die als eerste nieuwe protestantse kerk in 1607 in de provincie Groningen werd gebouwd. De uit 1842 daterende joodse synagoge is thans het Joods Synagogaal Museum.

nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boertange

Bourtange (53°1′N 7°11′E / 53.017°N 7.183°E / 53.017; 7.183Coordinates: 53°1′N 7°11′E / 53.017°N 7.183°E / 53.017; 7.183) is a star fort and village in the Westerwolde region of the Dutch province of Groningen. It is a part of the municipality of Vlagtwedde, and lies about 32 km northeast of Emmen.

The fortifications were initially built during the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) when William I of Orange wanted to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen which was controlled by the Spaniards. This road followed a sandy ridge (tange) through the marshes.

Later, around 1594, Bourtange became part of the fortifications on the border between the northern provinces (Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe) and Germany.

Bourtange was a separate municipality until 1822, when it was merged with Vlagtwedde.

In 1851 the fort was given up and Bourtange became a normal village.

Around 1960 living conditions in the village deteriorated and it was decided that Bourtange would be rebuilt to its state of 1742. Today it is an open air museum.

In 2001, the town of Bourtange had 267 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.21 km², and contained 133 residences.The statistical area "Bourtange", which also can include the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 530.

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Sella del diavolo.

La leggenda racconta che un giorno i diavoli, attratti dal fascino e dalla bellezza del golfo di Cagliari se ne impadronirono, Dio mandò allora i suoi angeli prediletti guidati dall'arcangelo Michele per scacciare Lucifero e i suoi adepti, ma nella fuga quest'ultimo perse la sua sella che cadde e si pietrificò, il promontorio fu quindi chiamato sella del diavolo e il golfo tanto ambito golfo degli angeli.

Veduta dalla zona del pomolo della sella.

La torre in primo piano è stata edificata durante la dominazione spagnola (1280 circa) ed è denominata del poueht, che in catalano significa pozzetto, per via di un'adiacente cisterna di origine punica, denominazione in seguito estesa a tutto il litorale col nome di Poetto.

Guardate la cartina, vi impressionerà la sua posizione.

Oggi sarò un pò assente. Ci sarà la laurea di mia figlia, in Biologia.

Tre figli e tre lauree, non male!

Explore # 483 March 28, 2013

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this picture is for Lauren Withrow as she finished her 365 project today.

I posted my favourites of all her pictures in the comments, too.

Lauren,

today is the end of something that accompanied you for a whole year. but it’s also the start of something new.

the picture I used is the first one I ever commented of your photos. it means a lot to me because it’s been the reason for looking at other pictures you took, it’s the reason for me falling in love with your work.

I discovered you in july this year but at the time you were only another new contact after I gradually started to use flickr regularly. in the beginning I have been impressed by your ability to use simple things like sunlight. but then I started to have a closer look, to behold your expressions, your poses. I started to read what you were trying to tell, and at some point I felt like I was able to understand. it hasn’t been until august that I finally wrote a comment as I wanted to tell you how much I liked your work. I’ve been the happiest girl alive when you added me back. ever since I checked every single picture you uploaded. and I didn’t just have a short look at it. I surveyed them all, trying to comprehend what you’ve been feeling. looking at your pictures is one of my favourite things to do. I mean that. they are full of life and emotions, they’re not just ‚pretty‘ or ‚amazing‘, they tell a story. your personal story.

I began to read your descriptions, I tried to understand them. I really like that you don’t just tell what you’ve been feeling like, you show with your photos and the associated words. I felt like I got to know you better, also because of our flickrmails. I noticed that you are a person who does things for her own good, not to please others or let alone for others. I realized that I could accept everything you do and believe in because of that. there have been times in my life when I met people who told me they believed in god and I just couldn’t comprehend. as I told you, I haven’t been ‚taught‘ that religion and I have never been interested in it, so that belief is somehow weird in my eyes, sometimes even repellent. but talking to you made me realize that I admire your view of things. not in the way that I wanted to change and believe in god, too, but I just liked how you know and accept that there’s something that helps you to keep going and you apply it to yourself without wanting to convince others. I like talking to you so much because you write in a very mature way, you are able to accept what others think, and when you include your point of view, you don’t impose anything on the reader, you just tell how you feel like.

also, you helped me a lot since I got to know you. earlier this year I was thinking of my work and how I felt like I pretended to be someone I’m not, how I showed emotions I didn’t feel at that moment. but once you told me that every feeling you show in your pictures was real, that you felt like that sometime in your life, either while taking the pictures or at some point in the past. that made me think and I realized that I do the same thing. I just didn’t know. every feeling I retained in my pictures so far is actually true to the marrow, I just wasn’t aware of the fact that I sometimes reproduce feelings I had a long time ago. I wanted to thank you for making me comprehend, you probably don’t know how much that means to me, how good that reversal point felt. but thank you. truly. but most of all I am thankful for how much you inspired me the past weeks.

sadly I haven’t been following your work from the beginning, but I had a look at many of your pictures and I’m planning on going through your whole 365 sometime soon. I just want you to know that in the past 4 months that I’ve been watching your work, I learned a lot. you taught me how to use lighting and how to express myself, even though you probably didn’t intend to. you made me think beyond so many times, you made me feel with you or smile with you or be truly happy with you, just by allowing me to view your work.

I think you are very special and at this point I can say that you are one of my favourite photographers. you are and I hope that you will be in the future, too.

I am kind of sad about you finishing this project as I know that I won’t see as many self portraits as the past weeks, maybe even none at all for some time. I think I somehow became hooked on viewing your pictures every day. :) but nevertheless, I am happy for you because I know that you’ve been waiting for this day to come for a long time, even though you might be quite nostalgic today. I am happy that you made it, that I had the chance to take part in it. I am truly happy for you. and I think I will like whatever you will do next. you said something about new projects you had in mind a few weeks ago and I’m very excited for what you will come up with, even if I won’t see you in those pictures. you will still be taking them and you will be putting feeling into them just like you did the past year.

I hope to see many new photos from you in the future and I hope I can still read some updates on your life because I really like to find out more about you.

you enriched my world, Lauren, and I wish you all the best. for now and for tomorrow and for the rest of your life. you are unique.

[I’ve been thinking of you all day long. today was Lauren-day. :)]

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Yeah let's go

To the sand, the purest sand

Into the sea, yeah let's go

Leaving reason far behind

Nothing here is cruel or kind

Only your desire to set me free…

Let us lie here all alone

Worn away like river stone

Let us be the sirens of the sea

I... can not... resist... your call

Oceanlab- Sirens of the Sea

I've been exploring some highly personal aspects of my life lately with the project, and it feels right. I think there are others out there that can relate to these aspects of life, and when you inspire or touch others it makes it all worth it. To me, this is just one of the many things that makes a good photo. If you look within, there is a tale of longing that this photo tells... a longing to hold the hand of someone who isn't afraid to follow wherever I might go... I promise to never lead you astray, and I will light our way. But not before the time is right. I'm ready. Are you ready... yeah? Let's go...

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Inside a voce is screaming, ‘My God!’ But it si time to work. Deal with the rest later. - Kevin Carter, Great Images of the 20th Century : The Photographs That Define Our Times by Kelly Knauer (Editor), Inc Time , ISBN: 1883013755 , Page: 43

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The third round of this year’s RogueOlympics over on RogueBricks asked for some 'volume'.

Sure, volume is sound or an amount of space, but being the bookworm that I used to be, I immediately had to think of the numerous volumes that I had binge-read over the years. And so this week's MOC is a little love letter to the written word, and the imaginary worlds that those can conjure.

The RogueOlympics require you to stick to 101 elements or less so this little scene was built with a total of 100 bricks.

Five more rounds to go, we barely started! Feel free to join in on the fun!

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It's 2:30am

I can't sleep

and I'm in an editing mood.

This picture is from awhile ago. I just rediscovered it.

and I was thinking a lot tonight and I got a lot of inspiration from other photos today.

I want to start writing a lot more on here. I guess you could call it journaling. But I want to look back years from now and know what I was thinking today....about this picture, life, anything.

I remember this day perfectly (in this picture) Eric took me to this park. I wish I could remember what it was called but it was amazing. This lake was huge and it couldn't have been a nicer day. and we rode the bike there which was even better. but I just remember feeling so free. Everybody who was there was just off doing their own thing. I saw this boy sitting on this bench singing and playing his guitar, and I envyed him for a minute. It just seemed like he didnt have a care in the world for that moment and he probably didnt, and then I realized neither did I. becasue I had everything I needed right there. I had the person I love more than anything in the world and who loves me back right there with me, and I was doing what I loved, taking pictures and running in the grass barefoot. and I wish everyday could be like this day but I know they won't be, and that's why I want to write about it, so I can come back and read about it, and relive it when I need to.

Explore #198 Mar 9, 2010

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Thanks for the visit, comments, invitations and favorites.

Please don't use this image without my explicit permission.

© all rights reserved.

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"When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."

~ Edward Teller ~

~ Alison Mackie ~

(I paint with pixels of light on a digital canvas of black)

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Kids having fun with me in the small village of Sohan, outside of Islamabad ;-)

Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set

Part of Pakistani Lifestyle (Recommended as a slideshow)

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Looking out for the guilty party :-)

Rockhopper penguins are small, aggressive, crested penguins so named because of the way they hop from boulder to boulder when moving around their rocky colonies. Rockhoppers are a sub-Antarctic species breeding at cool, southern localities such as Macquarie Island, the Falklands, Campbell Island, Tristan da Cunha, and the Antipodes.

Rockhoppers have distinctive crest feathers on their heads, bright orange-red bills and tiny blood red eyes. The top of the head has spiked black feathers. Like all penguins, Rockhopper have a big head, a short, thick neck, a streamlined shape, a short, wedge-shaped tail, and strong, stiff, flipper-like wings.

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Soms baden je gedachten en dromen in de mist, zijn de contouren niet zo scherp en afgelijnd als je zelf willen zou.

Maar als de mist optrekt, dan vuren de ogen terug en flakkert de gezonde rebellie gedempt.

Vorig jaar organiseerden we op mijn werk een veiling van talenten en gekkigheden in het kader

van Music For Life : www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY1mqoCVVV0&feature=related

Miel bood het hoogste bedrag voor een mini-shoot en na een jaar vol mist, trokken we 2 weken geleden eindelijk, een zondagochtend voor dag en dauw ,op pad.

Toeval of niet, de Lierse polder verstilde in dichte mist, en waar de Grote en Kleine Nete samenvloeien schitterde er die ochtend geen zilveren knoop*, maar vonkten ogen vol vastberadenheid.

BTW als je een straffe freelance strateeg zoekt, dan is hij dé man: wavelab.be/

*Felix Timmermans

6 July 2010

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Phacelia - bee plant

This is an annual herb which grows erect to a maximum height near 100 centimeters. The wild form is glandular and coated in stiff hairs. The leaves are mostly divided into smaller leaflets deeply and intricately cut into toothed lobes, giving them a lacy appearance. The very hairy inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of bell-shaped flowers in shades of blue and lavender. Each flower is just under a centimeter long and has protruding whiskery stamens. The seeds are "negatively photoblastic", or photodormant, and will only germinate in darkness.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phacelia_tanacetifolia

Explore #50, 12/23/08.

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E18 Vantaa, Finland

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One of the 'wild' water lilies growing in a ditch at Big Branch Marsh NWR near Lacombe, La. There are several growing in the ditches in the refuge. I went there to get some frog shots as they normally sit in the water where you can see them but I saw none...... So I 'shot' the flowers instead! :-)

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L'intérêt avec le martin, c'est qu'il a un territoire assez limité (1 km). Une fois repéré, il suffit de venir se poster discrètement, et attendre. L'attente peut être assez longue ( il m'est arrivé d'attendre 3 heures pour le voir 30 secondes). Mais, souvent il revient se poser sur un perchoir.

Ici, après ma première visite, j'ai installé ce perchoir, pour l'obliger à se poser à l'endroit qui convient le mieux (distance et exposition à la lumière). Puis, on attend ! Et bingo, il vient. Avec un peu de pratique, on peut mémoriser son chant et le deviner avant même qu'il se pose sur le perchoir. Je vous mets, ici, un lien vers le chant du martin : www.oiseaux.net/chant/alcedo_atthis.mp3

Interesting thing with the kingfisher is that it lives within a relatively limited area (1 km). Once spotted, just come post quietly and wait. The wait can be quite long (I happened to wait 3 hours to see it 30 seconds). But often it came back and landed on a perch.

Here, after my first visit, I installed this perch, to force it to land at the place that best suits (distance and exposure to light).

Then you wait! And bingo, it comes. With a little practice, you can memorize the song and guess before it lands on the perch. I put here a link to the song of the kingfisher : www.oiseaux.net/chant/alcedo_atthis.mp3

Interés con el martín pescador es que tiene una zona bastante limitada (1 km). Una vez descubierto, acaba de llegar después tranquilamente y esperar.

La espera puede ser muy larga (se me ocurrió que esperar 3 horas para ver 30 segundos). Pero a menudo regresó y aterrizó en una percha.

Aquí, después de mi primera visita, he instalado esta percha, para obligarlo a aterrizar en el lugar que mejor se adapte a distancia (y la exposición a la luz).

Después de esperar! Y bingo, venga. Con un poco de práctica, usted puede memorizar la canción y adivinar antes de que aterrice en la percha. Pongo aquí un enlace a la canción del martín pescador : www.oiseaux.net/chant/alcedo_atthis.mp3

Interesse com o kingfisher é que ele tem uma área relativamente limitada (1 km). Uma vez identificados, acabado de chegar de pós em silêncio e esperar.

A espera pode ser muito longo (aconteceu de eu esperar 3 horas para ver 30 segundos). Mas muitas vezes ele voltou e pousou em uma vara.

Aqui, depois de minha primeira visita, eu instalei esta vara, para forçá-lo a pousar no local que melhor se adequa (distância e exposição à luz).

Então você espera! E bingo, ele vem. Com um pouco de prática, você pode memorizar a música e acho que antes de ele cair no poleiro. Eu coloquei aqui um link para a música do martim-pescador : www.oiseaux.net/chant/alcedo_atthis.mp3

Bonne journée à tous. merci pour vos visites et commentaires.

Have a nice day. Thanks for your visits and comments.

Buenos días a todos. gracias por sus visitas y comentarios.

View On Black

Non sto pensando a niente

Non sto pensando a niente,

e questa cosa centrale, che a sua volta non è niente,

mi è gradita come l'aria notturna,

fresca in confronto all'estate calda del giorno.

Che bello, non sto pensando a niente!

Non pensare a niente

è avere l'anima propria e intera.

Non pensare a niente

è vivere intimamente

il flusso e riflusso della vita...

Non sto pensando a niente.

E' come se mi fossi appoggiato male.

Un dolore nella schiena o sul fianco,

un sapore amaro nella bocca della mia anima:

perché, in fin dei conti,

non sto pensando a niente,

ma proprio a niente,

a niente...

- Fernando Pessoa

Formato Grande y Fondo Negro

Sigo con el ordenador en Terapia Intensiva... pero no me desanimo. Ya llegará la renovación.

Estoy con mucho trabajo atrasado. Ya los iré visitando con más tiempo y calma. Por ahora, les dejo la libertad de un cielo...

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UN PRESO SINGULAR

Era un hombre que había sido encarcelado. A través de un ventanuco enrejado que había en su celda gustaba de mirar al exterior. Todos los días se asomaba al ventanuco, y, cada vez que veía pasar a alguien al otro lado de las rejas, estallaba en sonoras e irrefrenables carcajadas. El guardián estaba verdaderamente sorprendido. Un día, ya no pudo por menos que preguntar al preso:

-Oye, hombre, ¿a qué vienen todas esas risotadas día tras día?

Y el preso contestó:

-¿Cómo que de qué me río? ¡Pero estás ciego! Me río de todos esos que hay ahí. ¿No ves que están presos detrás de estas rejas?

El Maestro dice: Por falta de discernimiento puro, no sólo estás en cautiverio, sino que ni siquiera llegas a darte cuenta de que lo estás.

101 CUENTOS CLÁSICOS DE LA INDIA

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Una sugerencia, permitirse escuchar esta melodía: Cançó D'Amor, de Lluís Llach. La letra está en catalán y en español en el mismo sitio.

¡UN MARAVILLOSO DÍA PARA TODOS USTEDES!!!

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