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Our weekend...
Friday: a visit from Venus and Charlene with lots of playtime for the girls.
and visited with good friends camping up the hollow.
Saturday - off to Delfest in Cumberland Maryland at the Fairgrounds.
We were there for about an hour when it started to rain... big huge drops.
then it rained a bit harder and the wind picked up, heavy at times.
we thought it was going to blow over, but NO it rained heavier then there was a blow of warm air and the hail started...
we were under a tarp that was behind a vendor's larger tarp, Don our friend had been set up there since Friday.
20% chance of rain, Don kept sayin...
Then it started to get fierce again, the hubs and I are both holding down the tarp set-up we were under and the winds got stronger, hail was getting larger. We were being pelted with sideways hail !
The winds had to be up to 60 mph, it was a very strong storm all concentrated in one small place.
Then... a bright burst of light, and the crack of thunder with no time between the light and sound - definately hit somewhere very close I thought.
Later we found out lightening hit less than 100 yds behind us, striking a tree.
The tarp collapsed on us - hubs ran for the concrete block mens room and I just stood there in shock, could hardly see - my face needed windshield wipers.
My friends Gary and Neil (thanks guys) grabbed me by both elbows, took me to Garys van - and there was another lady they rescued with a 2 y/o girl.
Drenched and shivering but glad to be out of the storm - and then... oh no, my glasses were blown off my face !
damn... luckily I found them about 4 ft in front of where I had been holding onto the tarp frame, unscratched and not stepped on! yay.
Click here for Photos of the Fest and storm damage
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someone on one of these sites said golf ball sized hail - but no, it was marble size.
still hurt like hell - even while under a tarp.
I had walked thru water that was calf deep behind our truck... and since we left the windows down a few inches, our change of clothes for evening wear were a bit wet.
Ran the truck and heat - got warm, dried off with the many towels I always keep in the truck. Getting warmed up felt so good - as we were soaked and chilled to the bone.
We did hang out until midnight with Gary, Don, Neil... oh, and thanks guys for that awesome Apple Cobbler and icecream ... mmmm good.
never did find Josie tho.
she said they fared ok in the storm but decided to head back home, they were both shaken by the weather disaster.
It looked like a war zone with so many twisted metal tarp frames in piles all over the campground areas.
Fortunately no one was seriously injured - which really surprised me with so much stuff flying thru the air... almost all the vendors were wiped out with much equipment blown over.
My friend Don fared ok once he got another large tarp cover for his food vendor operation, thanks to a very nice guy that gave it to him on loan.
no more rain but for a few sprinkles, managable with an umbrella.
Sunday: Charlene and Venus came to visit again, Kachina and she had a blast playin around the yard and in the stream...
then we wall went up the hollow to visit and have dinner with our camper friends, where we told our storm stories.
we sat around a warm fire and had a nice quiet end to the weekend.
Hope you all had a nice peaceful weekend - with no rain, wind or hail.
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: AFTER THE CONCERT (3 of 9): L and Near. Part 2 /
DESPUÉS DEL CONCIERTO (3 de 9): L y Near. Parte 2
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 35 of 184) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107,108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184.
FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
L: Alright, you asked for it...
Near: … (Finally! ò_ó)
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L: Muy bien, tú lo has querido...
Near: … (Por fin! ò_ó)
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This is the study room of Suzallo Library in University of Washington, Seattle. I had some time before the seminar that I went to attend there and thought I could take a HDR shot of the study room. This is a 3 exposure HDR merged in Photoshop and then tone mapped in Photomatix.
Parco dei Sette Acquedotti
Resti di torre medioevale risalente al 1300; è realizzata in tufelli e poggia sulla volta a botte di una cisterna romana in scaglie di selce.
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One of the last of the Rotterdam architecture series. Next will be an architectural series on The Hague and Amsterdam.
This is another view on the asymmetrical pylon of the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam
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Explore #323 February 19 2009
Explore: 11.02.08
First try Infrared Photography: the Photoshop way
Sometimes you'll hear someone called a "Renaissance man." That means he's a man of many interests, gifts and pursuits - skilled in many areas. If there is such a thing as a "Renaissance boy," I think our five-year-old grandson might be one. He's interested in so many things - and actually, he's good in a lot of them. To round out the other areas of his life, he recently got involved in a soccer league for kids his age. Which makes his mother a "soccer mom," I guess. Which means everybody wants her vote. Right? Well, our grandson didn't have the benefit of having an older sibling to learn from as some other members of his little team did. The soccer learning curve for him was a little steep, but he's been doing well. But something really special happened in one of the last games of the season. The team's two little stars came late - players who the others tend to lean on. But they weren't there to lean on. Now it was clearly up to kids who were usually in the shadow of those stars. Well, our favorite soccer player really stepped up. Suddenly, he was more focused, more aggressive than he'd been all season - and right away he scored two goals for his team, and they won that night.
guess our grandson looked around and said, "Well, if it is to be, it's up to me!" And suddenly he stepped up to make a difference like he'd never made before. It may be that time in the game for you right now - time to step up and really make a difference.
You've got a great example to follow in our word for today from the Word of God in 1 Samuel 17, beginning with verse 23. The Israelis and Philistines are lined up facing one another on opposite sides of a valley. Every day the Philistine giant comes out and he challenges the Israelites to send out a man to fight him, with the people of the loser serving the people of the winner from that day on. Young David, the youngest brother in his family, arrives to bring food to his warrior brothers just as Goliath is coming out to issue his challenge for the fortieth day in a row.
The Bible says, "Goliath ... shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. When the Israelites saw the man, they all ran from him in great fear ... David said to Saul, 'Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.'" None of the big varsity players in their nice uniforms will get in the game - so the kid does, with just a slingshot. He doesn't have the training the others do, he doesn't have the experience, he doesn't have the weapons, but he's willing to step up because he believes, as he tells Goliath, "The battle is the Lord's." And Goliath went down because an unlikely, seemingly unqualified, hero stepped up.
This is a time when the Goliaths of hell are holding the field all around us. Not because the darkness is so strong, but because no one will step up and fight the battles. Right now God is summoning you, as unlikely and unqualified as you may feel, to get out of the shadows and onto the front lines. Someone has to take that assignment no one else is rising to. Someone needs to step up and change the atmosphere in your church, or in your school, or in your home, or where you work. Someone has to fight for your marriage. Someone has to be the one to confront what's wrong, to bring people together, to lead a prayer effort, to talk about Jesus.
In Isaiah's day when God asked, "Who will go for us?" Isaiah answered, "Here am I, send me" (Isaiah 6:8). Maybe you've been holding back saying, "Here am I, send him." But God is summoning you to step up for this one - like our grandson on that soccer field, making a greater difference than he'd ever made before because he knew it was up to him this time! And this assignment from God is up to you - even if there are defiant giants standing in the way. It's your time to shine, and you will, because the battle is the Lord's!
-Ron Hutchcraft
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4bWlwOXIno festa del cel Barcelona Air race redbull
vista en Explore,, vamos aumentando poquito a poquit0
1. agronoms L'home de ferro 2007, 2. eixting. La cursa del Eix comercial Lleida, 3. vista de la SEu vella, 4. Santes Creus, Monestir del Cister, 5. els paisatges a la treko, 6. ballarina., 7. Mis amigos , mi familia y yo casi al agua., 8. pintor : robado,
9. HDR pont de camarasa i Montsec, 10. recreació, 11. caga tió- se ofrece para animar las fiestas catalanas Navideñas
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Preparing already for a full week of photography in London! Keywords: Ultra wide angle, HDR and (especially at) night! Going alone, exploring parts of London I've never been to - by bike!
Can't wait for March!
This shot was from my last visit back in May 2010. University of Greenwich, Queen's House plus Royal Observatory in the back - taken from one of those speedy commuters boats. Loved it!
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Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, is the location of what was from January 1, 1892, until November 12, 1954 the main entry facility for immigrants entering the United States. It is owned by the Federal government and is now part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, under the jurisdiction of the US National Park Service. It is situated predominantly in Jersey City, New Jersey, although a small portion of its territory falls within neighboring New York City.
The Ellis Island Immigrant Station was designed by architects Edward Lippincott Tilton and William Alciphron Boring. They received a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition for the building's design. The architecture competition was the second under the Tarsney Act which had permitted private architects rather than government architects in the Office of the Supervising Architect to design federal buildings.
The federal immigration station opened on January 1, 1892 and was closed on November 12, 1954, but not before 12 million immigrants were inspected there by the US Bureau of Immigration. 1907 was the peak year for immigration at Ellis Island with 1,004,756 immigrants processed. The all-time daily high also occurred this year on April 17 which saw a total of 11,747 immigrants arrive - Per Wiki
EXPLORE #145 on June 19, 2009! Many thanks for the views and comments!
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Former President Bill Clinton
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Former President Bill Clinton walking along the National Mall on his way to the dedication ceremonies for the National World War 2 Memorial, May 2004
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William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. Prior to his election as President, Clinton served a total of nearly 12 years as the 50th and 52nd Governor of Arkansas. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is the junior U.S. Senator from New York. Clinton founded and currently heads the William J. Clinton Foundation to promote "the values of fairness and opportunity for all."
Presenting himself as a moderate and a member of the New Democrat wing of the Democratic Party, he headed the moderate Democratic Leadership Council in 1990 and 1991. He was a darkhorse candidate but won the nomination and was elected President in 1992 with Al Gore as his running mate. Clinton was handily re-elected in 1996 making him the first Democrat to serve two full terms as President since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
His domestic priorities as President included efforts to create a universal health care system, improve education, increase local police forces, restrict handgun sales, balance the federal budget, strengthen environmental regulations, improve race relations, promote equal rights, and protect the jobs of workers during pregnancy or medical emergency. With approval from Congress, he raised income taxes on the wealthiest taxpayers in 1993. His most dramatic domestic move was the radical reform of the welfare system in 1996 in cooperation with Republicans who had taken control of Congress.
Internationally, his priorities included reducing trade barriers, supporting the North American Free Trade Agreement, preventing nuclear proliferation, mediating the Northern Ireland peace process and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, and commanding military intervention to end the wars in Bosnia and the Kosovo. He engaged in air attacks on Iraq, most notably in Operation Desert Fox, and funded efforts to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
Clinton was the first baby boomer President and the first Democratic President to be re-elected since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Clinton was the third youngest President in history at 46, while Vice President Al Gore was 44. Clinton was one of only two Presidents in American history to be impeached. The vote to impeach was along party lines in the Republican-dominated congress. He was acquitted by a vote of the United States Senate on February 12, 1999. Clinton remained popular with the public throughout his two terms as President, ending his presidential career with a 65% approval rating, the highest end-of-term approval rating of any President in the post-Eisenhower era.
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Trivia about Bill Clinton:
Clinton is 6' 1½" (1.87m) tall.
Clinton is left-handed (other sinistral Presidents include James A. Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush).
Following the death of Pope John Paul II on 2005-04-02 Clinton stirred up a mini-controversy saying the late pontiff, "may have had a mixed legacy…there will be debates about him. But on balance, he was a man of God, he was a consistent person, he did what he thought was right." Clinton sat with both President George W. Bush and former President George H.W. Bush as the first current or former American heads of state to attend a papal funeral.
On 2006-05-13, Clinton was the commencement speaker along with George H. W. Bush at Tulane University in New Orleans. They both received honorary Doctorates of Laws from Tulane University. Clinton spoke to the students, faculty and alumni of Tulane and of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina that Tulane students know firsthand.
Clinton is an amateur saxophonist (other recent musical presidents include pianists Harry Truman and Richard Nixon).
Clinton is allergic to dust, mold, pollen, and cat dander, mildly allergic to beef and dairy products.
Clinton was a brother of Alpha Phi Omega, a service fraternity and Kappa Kappa Psi, a band service fraternity.
Clinton was the only President to be married to a member of Congress: Hillary Rodham
Clinton's service as a Senator officially began 18 days before his second term ended.
Clinton has basic knowledge of German; he studied German in college as his language-of-choice.
Clinton owned two pets during his presidency: a male chocolate-colored Labrador Retriever named "Buddy" and a cat named "Socks". Socks arrived in 1993 and was the first cat to live in the White House since President Carter's daughter's cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang. Clinton acquired Buddy as a puppy in 1997 and named him after his late uncle. Buddy and Socks fought frequently at the White House and were kept in separate quarters. Since this would be no longer possible in the Clintons' smaller home in Chappaqua, New York, Socks was given away to Clinton's secretary when he left office. Buddy died after being run over by a car near the Clintons' Chappaqua house in 2002.
Centraal Beheer, a Dutch insurance company famous for its humorous commercials, once had a TV commercial involving Clinton and a voodoo doll. This commercial was taken down after a few weeks at the request of the White House.
Clinton reportedly owned a 1970 El Camino at one time. Speaking to a group of GM employees, Clinton joked, "It had astro-turf in the back. You don't want to know why."
In November of 1997 President Clinton made history by being the first sitting President to speak to a gay rights organization. He gave a speech at a formal dinner hosted by the Human Rights Campaign .
The Clinton thumb gesture was popularized by Clinton.
Clinton's campaign song during his first Presidential campaign was "Don't Stop" [Thinking About Tomorrow] by Fleetwood Mac. He even managed to persuade the then-defunct group to perform for his inaugural ball in 1993.
Clinton is, to date, the only sitting U.S. President to have shaken hands with Cuban President Fidel Castro. The two leaders found themselves standing next to each other at a U.N. photo op in September 2000. As the 150 leaders in attendance were exiting for lunch, a chance bottle neck at the door put the two leaders side by side and the handshake took place. They shook hands and exchanged what was described as small talk for a couple of minutes. Richard Nixon shook Castro's hand when he was Vice-President, and Jimmy Carter has done so during his post-presidential years.
The first presidential Webcast, held by President Bill Clinton on 1999-11-08 live from Georgetown University, is currently the only bona fide Internet-age broadcast in a Presidential library. The two hour internet broadcast entitled Townhall with President Clinton, hosted by Al From of the Democratic Leadership Council and directed by Marc Scarpa, was billed as an "Online Town Hall Meeting" ushering in 'The New Politics of the Information Age'".
Appeared in a commercial with preceding president George Herbert Walker Bush encouraging donations to the Red Cross and other charities after the 2004 Tsunami.
Appeared in a commercial for Nickelodeon's Let's Just Play Get Healthy Challenge.
During the 1998 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Clinton made a bet with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on the playoff series between the Washington Capitals and the Ottawa Senators where the loser of the series had to wear the opposing team's jersey, The Capitals won the series four games to one and Chretien had to wear a Capitals jersey.
In 2003, he became the only politican to be the highlight of an E! True Hollywood Story.
America's Guilty Silence
By JAMES BROOKS
June 18, 2007
Crimes against humanity don't happen unless it is possible to commit them with impunity. Government corruption and gross imbalances of power will bring them closer to the edge of possibility. But the anticipation of impunity must be personal and social as well as legal and political. The perpetrators need to make sense of their crimes within a positive sense of themselves.
A shared sense of impunity that can pay for mass murder and torture chambers without self-reproach requires denial, distortion, and ignorance of swaths of reality. In totalitarian societies, the state handles these chores to try to keep the people unaware of its most criminal activities.
But in societies that enjoy relative freedom of the press, citizens encounter many unsavory facts that are impossible to deny directly. When "democracies" engage in war crimes, this knowledge pressures citizens to internalize a collective sense of impunity, which must be robust enough to neutralize incriminating truth as it appears.
Most informed US citizens are aware that their government runs a global network of secret detention centers where torture is routinely employed. They also know what this activity looks like, having seen photos of their troops' bestial behavior at Abu Ghraib. If they followed the story, they know that this behavior was also reported at several other prisons and detention centers in Iraq, under policy directives from the very top of the Pentagon.
They know about the human rights horrors of Guantanamo and Bagram Air Force base, that the CIA runs a global ring dedicated to kidnappings, "extraordinary rendition", and torture, that hundreds of our detainees have disappeared, and so on.
It is possible to know these things by reading big city newspapers. An objective observer could glean the general shape of these facts from network television news. The American public has been told. And the public has turned the page.
It's also a matter of record that our government has orchestrated an international economic blockade against the occupied Palestinian Authority, while Israel withholds the PA's tax revenues. After 15 months of this policy, an economy that aid experts had previously compared to sub-Saharan Africa has imploded. Social and civic services have ground to a virtual halt. (1) Diligent readers know that the Palestinians' already high rates of malnutrition and food insecurity are now at alarming levels. Doctors warn that skyrocketing numbers of Palestinian children are being crippled for life by chronic malnutrition. (2)
The predictable (and predicted) result of economic siege against an occupied people has been burgeoning chaos and civil strife, eroding what is left of the rule of law in the occupied territories. The informed American knows that this is happening because, in the fairest elections yet seen in the Middle East, the Palestinian people voted for the wrong party.
Yet even the best-informed Americans will be hard put to think of a similar instance in history. When have great powers conspired to destroy the government and economy of a destitute people already crumbling under another power's long colonial war?
To know about our government's global gulag and remain silent requires a reckoning with snatching people and repeatedly subjecting them to depraved acts of torture, knowing that those who do not die will suffer lifelong physical and psychological torment.
This reckoning appears to turn on variants of a calculation; that our collective security is worth more than the cost to a few tens of thousands of foreigners of questionable race and religion. This quantifies and prioritizes an otherwise difficult problem, allowing us to minimize the crimes by rounding our sums.
We don't notice that this pragmatic solution also fingers the people responsible for this inhumanity: us, the 'collective' whose security is so valuable that it's worth committing torture every day of the week to protect it.
To know about the economic siege against the occupied Palestinian territories and say nothing is to acquiesce in crippling collective punishment of millions of poor people, for the crime of holding a democratic election.
Unlike our straightforward torture-for-security deal in the global reign of terror against terror, our justifications for the Palestinian siege are bureaucratic and symbolic.
Hamas is on our "terror list" and therefore beyond the pale of humanity. Before we will end the blockade, Hamas must kiss the three poisoned rings of obeisance: recognize Israel's unique "right to exist" (as a "Jewish state" that refuses to recognize the rights of its current and former Arab residents), "renounce violence" (unlike Fatah, Israel, the US, etc.), and "accept past agreements" (the long sorry record of unreciprocated PLO concessions to Israel).
The public seems to accept this flimsy hypocrisy as reason enough to force Palestinian doctors to beg for syringes and bandages. (3) It goes down as easily as we close the cell door against the screams, to ease our pathetic fear of "terror".
Objectively, the American public is much more responsible for the crimes committed in its name than were the people of Germany for the horrors of the Third Reich. We have far more knowledge, and far greater freedom and opportunity to stop our government's criminal behavior.
But who is even asking the presidential candidates for their positions on torture and starving the Palestinians, or what they think of the respected study that found our war had killed as many as 665,000 Iraqis, as of almost two years ago?
Do we have any excuse for our abject failure to hold our leaders and ourselves responsible for our nation's most heinous crimes?
If we cannot bring ourselves to say, "guilty", then "innocent by reason of insanity" appears to be our only plausible defense before a future court of the world.
We will have to claim that our minds were not our own. The corporate media-government propaganda network had grown so ubiquitous that the people were essentially subjects in a mass brainwashing experiment. Unfortunately, the experiment was a success, so increasingly absurd versions of re-manufactured reality were implanted in the public mind.
At the time, some of us complained about cover-ups, lies, all the things we weren't being told by the media. But the public already knew too much, so our values had already been subverted to accommodate us to our national life of crime. In the reality we were fed, deceit could be virtuous, "terrorists" could destroy us, only leaders could understand the world, and in "extreme" cases the normal questions of morality did not apply. This is why we were silent while "our" government committed these terrible deeds.
The argument has some merit. The elites of this country invented modern propaganda almost a century ago. Today the immense power of corporate-political "opinion formation" in certain reaches the public mind is undeniable. We need to understand how much this system has undermined the public will and dehumanized our lives.
However, to the extent that we as individuals still possess free will and are responsible for our own values, we have no excuse for our mute acceptance of these and other national crimes against humanity. Don't we pay for them with our taxes, continue them with our votes, and support them with our silence?
Combat skills (at least at my base) is a two day course that helps prepare you for combat situations when you deploy. If you go to somewhere more hostile where you'll arm up, they send you through a longer training course, but two days is plenty when you aren't even going to be carrying a weapon at your deployed location. The class is surprisingly a lot of fun, even if it is exhausting. The first day is all classroom instruction with a brief overview of the weapon, refreshing your memory on how painful the low crawl is...that kind of thing. The best part of the course is the last part of day 2 where you actually get to fire off blank rounds. It's challenging and reminds you that "Hey, I really am in the military." I was hoping I would actually be able to take pictures of us in the field the M16 during lunch was all I had. I wish I could say that I'm mad in this picture, I'm just physically exhausted. I'm definitely out of shape...
Currently this is one of my favorite shot, for the (her) beauty, for the use of light, for the treatment and post-production.
It reminds me a lot of the album "Adore" by The Smashing Pumpkins (...yeah, i'm a bit obsessed by this band...).
angel. you know it's not the end
we'll always be good friends
but the letters have been sent on
so please. you always were so free
you'll see, i promise we'll be perfect
perfect
perfect
strangers when we meet
strangers on the street
lovers while we sleep
perfect
you know this has to be
we always were so free
we promised that we'd be
(Perfect - The Smashing Pumpkins)
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Entre otras cosas porque o te llenas de cardos, o te llenas de barro o te hace la visita típica la Guardia Civil....
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Canal TV en YOUTUBE NightPhotography
Nuevos dominios en www.lightpainting.es y en www.cursosdefotografianocturna.com
Hay ocasiones en que el sujeto en el visor de la cámara es tan fascinante que olvido apretar el disparador. Ken Padley.
Cita extraída de El lenguaje del arte de José B. Ruiz
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Camera Nikon D700
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Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 19 mm
ISO Speed 200
WB 3300
Blue gelled flash and warm light torch
This is perhaps my favourite photo of all the ones I took while I was away.
Not technically brilliant or anything like that, but it captured a 'feeling'. A day of sunshine and white fluffy cloud, walking for miles along a coastline without meeting a soul - a feeling of peace. A beautiful sandy beach, waves rolling in, the mountains rising up in the distance ...
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But it was also the scene of a sad tale of the times we live in ...
At the end of the day I decided to visit somewhere I hadn't been before - the beach at Achnahaird Bay. A short track led down to a carpark which was full ... there must have been at least 6 other cars there! I found somewhere to park and then headed out along the path towards the beach. On the way I met someone else with a camera. He stopped to chat and compare cameras, and I discovered that he was in his mid 70s and had just lost his wife. He seemed rather frail and was obviously upset about her death. He had always had a love of photography and his son had bought him a Nikon D90 which he was loving using. He looked at the photos I had taken, I looked at his, then we both decided that we needed to wait for the clouds to clear from the mountains before taking the shot we wanted. I left him sitting on a rock on the headland while I scrambled down to the shore to take this photo.
A few minutes later I could hear shouting coming from the headland - "Pervert! Taking photos of the kiddies ..." in a strong Yorkshire accent.
I went back up and saw a guy in his 30s trying to grab the camera from the guy I had been talking to. I went over and asked what was going on. The old guy was clearly upset and the younger guy was continuing to shout that he was a pervert who had been "taking photos of the kiddies". Now he was obviously as thick as pig-shit [and twice as ugly] and was clearly unable to understand when I explained that there was no way on earth a man with a 16-85 lens was going to be able to take photos of 'kiddies' who were at least 250 metres away.
He then turned to me and said "So you're a pervert as well then. Have you got pictures of the kiddies?"
To say I saw red would be an understatement. Years of pent-up anger and frustration came bursting out, remembering how I had felt when a few years ago someone had said the same sort of things to me.
I rather impolitely pointed out his shortcomings, his filthy mind for seeing children in the way he was accusing others, his stupidity at not understanding the nature of cameras and that if he wanted to bully someone I was ready and waiting.
He looked more and more shame-faced as I ranted, and after a couple of minutes mumbled "I'm sorry, Can I go now?" I told him that he could.
As he walked back down to the beach several people who had been walking by stood and laughed at him, then came over to say how much they had enjoyed the show. The old guy was by now in tears, sitting holding his camera to his chest and saying that he just wanted to smash it and go home. A few of us sat with him, telling him not to worry about other people's ignorance, and eventually he dried his eyes and began to look better.
I stayed with him for about half an hour as we both took [and mainly deleted!] photos of the sea and the waves breaking on the rocks, the distant hills and beauty of the place. He chatted more and more and I told him about some other places he should visit in the area. He got out his map and we worked out a good route for him to take to find photo opps.
He was a lovely old guy.
I hope he never has to go through that again.
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Umaid Bhavan Palace ( View it, Large On Black) was built with superficial intentions of providing employment to famine stricken farmers. The Palace now is a five star deluxe palace hotel. The museum of the palace is highly recommended for its display of weapons, an array of stuffed leopards, a huge banner presented by Queen Victoria and an incredible collection of clocks.
Maharaja Umaid Singhji who built this palace was fascinated with western lifestyles so he marshalled the services of a well-known Edwardian architect, Henry Vaughan Lanchester, a creditable equal of Edward Lutyens (architect of New Delhi) to construct a three hundred and forty seven roomed Umaid Palace.
This was to become India last of the great palaces and the biggest private residence in the world.
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Exploring Further : You can take a look at my new set Jodhpur 2008 which contains latest images from my travels. I shall be updating this set!
More interesting photos: High Dynamic Range images — Night Shots — People — Paris — I Love You
© 2008 Ayush Bhandari
Taken on a mini meet with some of the great folks that make up the a little corner of Flickr "The Cleveland Camera Club" One of our local land marks the Transporter Bridge at Middlesborough recently celebrated its birthday, and the local council lit the structure up with a moving light show, a static image like this fails to show the moving light etc.
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This is one of artist Dale Chihuly's glass art displays at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona. The exhibition at the Garden is named "Chihuly: The Nature of Glass" and Chihuly's work is displayed from November 22, 2008 to May 31, 2009. The Nature of Glass exhibit features new and unique works of glass artfully located throughout the Garden. Dale Chihuly is known for his innovative glass sculptures, and his work is immediately recognizable for its grand scale and vibrant colors. This is Chihuly's first exhibition in an outdoor desert environment.
“The artist permits and encourages photography of the artwork in this exhibition for educational and non-commercial use only.”
INFORMATION ON ARTIST DALE CHIHULY:
Dale Patrick Chihuly (b. September 20, 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, United States) is an American glass sculptor. Chihuly graduated from high school in Tacoma. Supported by his mother, after his brother George's death in a flight-training accident in Florida and his father's death of a heart attack, he enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound (now University of Puget Sound) in 1959.
In 1967, he received a Master of Science in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chihuly lives and works in his 25,000 square foot (2300 m²) studio, nicknamed "The Boathouse" for its former use, on Lake Union. Since losing the vision in one of his eyes in a car accident in 1976, Chihuly (who wears an eyepatch) no longer has the depth perception necessary to handle the molten glass himself. Instead, he conceptualizes each project with paint and canvas and then employs a team of artists to do the work.
About his work: His fascination with abstract nature forms comes from his mother's garden in Tacoma, Washington. One of his sculptures would be prominently displayed on the sitcom Frasier, which is set in nearby Seattle. His love for the ocean and its creatures is also reflected in his art.
Over the past forty years, Chihuly's glass sculptures have explored color, design, and assemblage. Although his work varies in size and color, he is best known for his multipart blown masterpieces. Also interested in Irish culture, he has produced a sizeable volume of "Irish cylinders," which are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.
Some of Chihuly's works cover whole ceilings of casinos and hotels, while others are hand-sized abstract flowers. Chihuly uses intense colors to bring his work to life. He is also known for using neon and argon.
Chihuly uses nature as a setting for his pieces, and tries to create his pieces as though they are part of nature. He sometimes entwines his pieces around tree branches and trunks. He also suspends them in space and floats them in water. Although it is not widely known, some components of Chihuly's installations (for example, the stacked aqua-colored chunks that decorate the Tacoma "Bridge of Glass") are made of an acrylic-type material rather than glass.
Source: Wikipedia
INFORMATION ABOUT THE DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN:
Nestled amid the red buttes of Papago Park, the Desert Botanical Garden hosts one of the world’s finest collections of desert plants. One of only 44 botanical gardens accredited by the American Association of Museums, this one-of-a-kind museum showcases 50 acres of beautiful outdoor exhibits. Home to 139 rare, threatened and endangered plant species from around the world, the Garden offers interesting and inspiring experiences to more than 300,000 visitors each year.
A charter member of the Museum Association of Arizona and National Center for Plant Conservation, the Garden is fully accredited with the American Association of Museums and American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta. It continues to build on its 63-year legacy of environmental stewardship, and has become nationally and internationally renowned for its plant collections, research and educational programs.
Source: www.dbg.org/index.php/about
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Type of ship: Coaster
Flag: Republic of Vanuatu
Port of Registry: Port Vila
Owner: Fast Lines Belgium NV,Antwerpen
Year built: 1985
Built by: Bijlsma & Zonen,Wartena,The Netherlande
Length: 79.80m
Beam: 11.08m
Draft: 4,12m max.
Gross tonnage: 1391 tons
Net tonnage: 757 tons
Deadweight: 2293
Hold dim.: 55.80 x 9.20m /8.50m
Engine type: Deutz 4 stroke 6 cyl.
Engine power: 1200 bhp
Speed: 9.9 knots max.
Call Sign: YJUL2
MMSI : 576964000
IMO: 8404458
Former name: CHRISTINA
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Haley and I had a wonderful dinner at Merriman's an hour or so after this was taken. She was also a good enough sport to stand in the water and let me take some long exposure shots of her right near where this was taken :).
21°0'4" N 156°40'4" W, 17.1 ft
Kapalua Bay, Maui
Lahaina, Hawaii, United States
Taken on 09.17.2012, uploaded on 09.26.2013.
©2012 Adam James Steenwyk. Please contact me at ajamess [at] gmail [dot] com if you would like to use this photo. Blog: www.f128.info
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The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore at dusk. The telltale Mughal architecture and the magnificent domes that accompany it makes this the most beautiful mosque I've had the pleasure of visiting. The mood was very relaxed and as we wandered around waiting for a well-timed dusk photo session we were treated to a well-sung call to prayer (not always the case), the evening prayer itself presenting photo ops.
I'm going to Damascus in January and one of the photo projects is the Umayyad Mosque, a worthy contender to runner-up.
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The monastery, dedicated to Saints James and Benedict, was founded in around 739/740 as a Benedictine abbey by members of the Huosi, a Bavarian noble clan, who also provided the three brothers who served one after the other as the first three abbots, traditionally named as Lanfrid, Waldram (or Wulfram), and Eliland, for nearly a century. It seems certain that Saint Boniface had an involvement in the foundation. There was here a school of writing, whose work survives in the form of numerous codices of the 8th and 9th centuries.
In 955 however the monastery was destroyed by the Hungarians [1]. It was restored in 969 by Wolfold, a priest, as a house of canons.
Under the influence of Emperor Henry III it was rebuilt by Saint Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg, and in 1031 returned to the Benedictine rule and re-settled by monks from Tegernsee Abbey under the first abbot of the new foundation, Ellinger. Under the second abbot, Gothelm (1032–1062), and the monks Gotschalk and Adalbert the school and scriptorium were re-established. Gotschalk, later third abbot, was responsible for the translation of the relics of Saint Anastasia here in 1053, which by making the abbey a place of pilgrimage added substantially to its fame and prosperity; he was also its first historian [2].
Benediktbeuern suffered four serious fires, in 1248, 1377, 1378, and 1490, but was prosperous enough to re-build each time.
The abbey enjoyed for centuries an extremely high reputation as a place of learning and research. Botanical research and the establishment of a medicinal herb garden in about 1200 are also evidenced. In about 1250 the library [3] covered the whole range of higher education as it then existed. The abbey also excelled at theological, philosophical and scientific studies. In the 1530s Dom Antonius Funda made considerable advances in the systematic writing of monastic history.
During the secularisation of Bavaria in 1803 the abbey, then comprising thirty-four monks, was dissolved. Some of the former monks took posts as university professors: for example, Ägidius Jais went to Salzburg as a pastoral theologian; Sebastian Mall to Landshut as an orientalist; and Florian Meilinger to Munich as a mathematician.
In the course of the disposal of the library and archives, there came to light the manuscript of the Carmina Burana, a 13th century collection of songs by wandering scholars. The manuscript, also known as the Codex Buranus, is also now in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
The abbey premises were acquired by Josef von Utzschneider, who in 1805 set up an experimental glassworks here, known as the Optical Institute. He was joined by Joseph von Fraunhofer, who was able here among other things to develop flawless or "waveless" flint glass and discover the Fraunhofer lines which have become of importance in the development of spectroscopic analysis.
Since 1930 the buildings have been used by the Salesians, of whom about 45 now live and work here.
The abbey church was declared a "basilica minor" in 1972.
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Tunage: The Doors- Riders on the Storm
I don't want to sound lame, but this photo kind of represents how I've been feeling recently. I feel like I'm the small dinosaur and all these problems piling up are the huge dog. Problems and just stuff that come with growing up. I'm excited and looking forward to it all, but for the love of God, I just want to be a teenager for the rest of my life, haha. I love being care free, but if change comes then I will embrace it.
I've had this toy ever since Jurassic Park came out, or sometime around then. I used to have way more but my mom gave them away to those less fortunate, so at least they made another kid happy, eh?
AW YEA. Time to go play Skyward Sword. PEACE!
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Sturnus unicolor
El estornino negro (Sturnus unicolor) es un ave paseriforme de la familia de los estorninos, Sturnidae. Está estrechamente relacionado con el estornino pinto, pero tiene una distribución mucho más limitada y no es migratorio. Este estornino es residente de la península ibérica, noroeste de África, Sicilia, Córcega y Cerdeña.
Su color negro y característica silueta con sus cortos cuello y cola hacen su identificación sencilla con la única posibilidad de confusión durante el invierno, cuando los estorninos pintos también están en la misma región. Los estorninos negros en invierno tienen un color negro grisáceo ligeramente moteado aunque no tan abundante y marcado como el pinto. Aunque al llegar la primavera pierden todas las pequeñas motas y adquieren un plumaje más negro y más brillante que el del estornino pinto, en especial los machos. Las patas son rosadas y sus estrechos y puntiagudos picos tienen tonalidad amarilla, más intensa en los machos durante la temporada de cría. Los estorninos negros andan en lugar de brincar y tienen un vuelo fuerte y directo. En vuelo se pueden apreciar sus alas en forma triángular y su cola corta. Sus polluelos son de color marrón apagado y los juveniles son de color gris oscuro motedado muy similares a los del pinto.
El estornino negro se puede encontrar en cualquier lugar abierto, incluso dentro de los núcleos urbanos. Al igual que el estornino pinto esta especie es omnívora y se alimenta de invertebrados, bayas, etc. También es gregaria y forma bandadas grandes durante el invierno, aunque no tan grandes que las del estornino pinto. Es un ave ruidosa y puede imitar sonidos muy bien. Su canto es semejante al del estornino pinto pero es más claro y tiene un tono más alto.
Esta especie suele anidar en cavidades, que pueden ser un hueco en un árbol o agujeros en los edificios. Normalmente ponen cuatro huevos.
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Thor is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder.
the son of Odin, and Giantess Jord (the Earth).
Thor owns a short-handled hammer, Mjöllnir, which, when thrown at a target, returns magically to its owner. His Mjöllnir also has the power to throw lightning bolts. To wield Mjöllnir, Thor wears the belt Megingjord, which boosts the wearer's strength and a pair of special iron gloves,to lift the hammer. Mjöllnir is also his main weapon when fighting giants.
Thor gave his name to the Old English day Þunresdæg, meaning the day of Þunor, known in Modern English as Thursday. Þunor is also the source of the modern word "thunder".
last images for thE vEnTs "messy" and TOTW "mythology"
BRAGS :
Ate some amazing food with good friends
Ordered some exercise Stuff
Ordered some badass props
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- My recent trip here got me thinking about the song "Nothing but Flowers" by the Talking Heads. Unfortunately, it's too cheerful for this place.
Then I came across this idea which would be interesting to apply here. Just don't think the camera would make it past the first day.
Lumbier, Navarra (Spain).
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The Foz de Lumbier is carved out of the limestone rock by the river Irati at the western end of the Leyre range of mountains, at the foot of the Navarrese Pyrenees. It is one of the most spectacular gorges in Navarre, a landscape created over millions of years by the waters of the river Irati, which have left their mark on this sanctuary of nature day by day. The gorge was declared a Nature Reserve in 1987.
Lumbier is a narrow and small gorge, just 1,300 metres long, but of spectacular beauty. Its vertical walls reach a maximum height of 150 metres and large birds of prey live in the cracks and ledges, with species such as griffon vultures whose flights will accompany you in your visit to the gorge. It is also a refuge for foxes, boar, badgers and owls, and is strewn with gall and kermes oaks and bushes such as thyme, lavender and gorse that hang from the cracks, vegetation that is transformed into woods of poplars, willows and ash trees at the entry and exit of the gorge.
In contrast to many other canyons, you can walk through Lumbier along an easy track that runs along the bottom of the cliffs for 2.6 kilometres. The route was created for the old Irati train (the first electric train in Spain) that linked Pamplona with Sangüesa between 1911 and 1955.
The signposted path runs along the river and crosses the rock through two tunnels (206 and 160 metres long) that do not have artificial light. Towards the end of the path the route goes around the rock and reaches the remains of the Puente del Diablo (Devil's Bridge), which was built in the 16th century with a raised arch 15 metres above the river. It was destroyed by the French in 1812 during the War of Independence, and owes its name to a legend that says that its builder asked the devil for help to finish it.
More info: www.visitnavarra.es/eng/organice-viaje/recurso/relacionad...
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La foz de Lumbier es un desfiladero excavado por el río Irati sobre la roca caliza en el extremo occidental de la sierra de Leire, al pie del Pirineo navarro. Es una de las gargantas más espectaculares de Navarra, un paisaje labrado a lo largo de millones de años por la acción del río Irati que, día a día, sigue marcando su huella en este santuario de la naturaleza, reserva natural desde 1987.
La de Lumbier es una hoz estrecha y pequeña, de 1.300 metros de longitud, y de una belleza espectacular. Sus paredes verticales alcanzan en su cota máxima 150 metros de altura, y en sus grietas, roturas y repisas viven grandes rapaces, entre los que abundan los buitres leonados, cuyo vuelo le acompañará en su visita al desfiladero. La foz, que también sirve de refugio para zorros, jabalíes, tejones y alimoches, está poblada de quejigos y coscojas, además de arbustos como tomillo, espliego y ollaga que se cuelan por las grietas, vegetación que se transforma en bosques de álamos, sauces y fresnos a la entrada y salida de la foz.
A diferencia de otras gargantas, la de Lumbier puede ser recorrida a través de un sencillo camino que discurre al pie de los acantilados, a lo largo de 2,6 kilómetros. El trazado fue realizado para el tren Irati, el primer tren eléctrico de España, que comunicó Pamplona con Sangüesa entre 1911 y 1955.
El camino está señalizado, discurre junto al río y atraviesa la roca a través de dos túneles, de 206 y 160 metros de longitud, que no poseen luz artificial. En la parte final del sendero, el camino bordea la roca y llega hasta los restos del Puente del Diablo, construido en el siglo XVI, con un arco elevado 15 metros sobre el río. Destruido por los franceses en 1812, durante la Guerra de la Independencia, debe su nombre a una leyenda según la cual su constructor pidió ayuda al diablo para levantar el puente.
Más info: www.visitnavarra.es/esp/organice-viaje/recurso.aspx?o=303...
wow, this looks awful small. okay, you must view large. seriously. it's plain embarrassing small.
also, i'm terribly sorry that i haven't had time to look through everyone's new uploads in a couple days :( i promise i will catch up on that this weekend, if not before.
this is old, super old, sorry you are probably tired of all these canal pictures.
anyway, i uploaded it since i had no new photos and i was tagged by audrey hutchinson (: so here goes, ten things about me...
1. i go through phases of music...i will pick two or three songs and literally ONLY listen to them for the next month. right now...it's two songs from the coraline soundtrack. don't make fun of me :'( haha.
2. i LOVE root beer dumdums (as in the lollipops)
3. i was obsessed with neopets for like 5 years...and i still go on every once in awhile. heh
4. i have a cat named ember, who is actually a vampire and i have ten million scars on my arms to prove it.
5. i haven't worn a pair of flaired jeans in practically a year, i live for skinny jeans. especially colored skinny jeans, i have a ridiculous amount of them.
6. i studied college-level ancient Greek for three weeks this summer (yessir, i'm a nerd. i went to CTY camp) and the best thing i learned from it was the ability to write secret notes to myself in transliterated greek (SO HELPFUL).
7. i loveeee snow and the sound it makes when it falls.
8. once i ate nothing but eggo waffles for two days straight.
9. i have three brothers, whom i frequently want to toss out the window.
10. i love band geeks.
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Hoy una gota de agua se ha puesto el traje de fiesta transparente e invisible como el aire, y sobre su cuello ha dejado de señal su collarcito de Anabaena, allí, ingrávido, sus perlas verdes se mueven silenciosas y ondean lentamente unidas por el hilo de la vida al soplo de las corrientes del agua.
Anabaena es una cianobacteria, una alga verdeazulada. Ancestral, tan antigua como los primeros seres vivos que florecieron de la nada en las aguas de la Tierra cuando la vida era excepción, también futurista como los últimos que desaparecerán con ella. Ha acompañado a nuestra nave azul en épocas de calma y de también de convulsión y es capaz de soportar ambientes extremos, aguantando heladas intensas y soportando temperaturas superiores a los 70ºC.
Anabaena va añadiendo cuentas al collar que adorna esta gota de agua,como mago sin chistera y de cada una va haciendo poco a poco dos, como si nada, así se teje su vida entre las manos de la corriente que la lleva en volandas por el infinito del Lago de Sanabria.
Todas las cuentas de los collarcitos de Anabaena, dejan espacio, a intervalos regulares, para que otras gemas, los “heterocistes”, células perfectamente esféricas y algo mayores que las demás, se destaquen, y lo hagan tanto por su forma y tamaño, como por su función. Los heterocistes se encargan de fijar el nitrógeno, que procedente de la atmósfera, se ha disuelto en el agua y de esta forma constituyen uno de los primeros eslabones para la formación de proteínas.
Anabaena es verdeazulada, como una turquesa teñida de cielo, de su luz toma la energía para realizar la fotosíntesis y del aire y el agua el nitrógeno que recorrerá las vidas de otros seres. La vida en el Planeta se ha hecho posible gracias a cianobacterias como ellas que transformaron una atmósfera irrespirable en la que tenemos desde hace millones de años.
Anabaena es un mucho más que un collarcito que va creciendo cuenta a cuenta mientras se da un paseo por la vida y adorna el cuello de fiesta de las gotas de agua.
La especie de hoy Anabaena planctonica flota enfundada en su traje transparente de mucílago, casi invisible, pero eficaz y protector, evitará que sus cuentas se desgranen y se caigan despistadas hacia el fondo.
Al igual que otras cianobacterias Anabaena se defiende fabricando potentes sustancias neurotóxicas -anatoxina, saxitoxina y microcystina- que provocan graves daños en el sistema nervioso, lesiones hepáticas irreversibles o incluso la muerte a los animales que se alimentan de las plantas con las que puede llegar a establecer simbiosis. Anabaena ha establecido estos estrechos vínculos de amistad, una amistad con la que defiende su vida y la de sus amigos .
Anabaena planctonica vive en aguas estancadas en las que puede formar parte del plancton y crecer de forma explosiva si las condiciones para ella son favorables y se cita por vez primera para el Lago de Sanabria desde esta galería
La fotografía de hoy, realizada a 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste de interferencia, se ha tomado sobre
una muestra recolectada a cinco metros de profundidad, el 30 de agosto de 2015, por Laura, Mª José y Tomás en las
inmediaciones de la Isla de Moras en el Lago de Sanabria (Zamora), desde el catamarán Helios Sanabria el primer
catamarán construido en el Planeta propulsado por energía eólica y solar.
presentación ponencia congreso internacional de Limnología
informes de contaminación en el Lago de Sanabria
la contaminación en el Lago de Sanabria
Música: Ella y Él.
No mires hacia atrás, Pepa, disimula y sigue leyendo, pero creo que he visto a mi Ginés con otra mujer cinco filas más atrás de nosotras y le estaba haciendo toda clase de carantoñas.
Mira que me lo decía todo el mundo y no me lo quería creer, qué pedazo de sinvergüenza , me lleva diciendo toda la semana que el viaje a Madrid era para ver un aparato para el laboratorio.....pero no me dijo el capullo que el aparato que quería ver fuera un aparato reproductor femenino. Me estoy encendiendo Pepa!!!... Me esta hirviendo la sangre !!!Creo que me voy a levantar yy....!!!!....
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Bien podría estar basado en un hecho real....y es que historias de este tipo o de cualquier otro se repite en todas partes sin importar mucho el lugar dónde suceden ni la procedencia, ni el status social de las personas.
Y es que hay hombres -( y también mujeres ,claro está)- que son de naturaleza infiel y que no se conforman con una sola mujer....pero también hay otros que lo son por otros motivos y no por tener el acento inherente de D. Juan. Con ello no quiero excusar de ninguna manera la infidelidad pero se podía uno/a parar a pensar en las causas más frecuentes de estas infidelidades, a veces, es la falta de comunicación en la pareja, el no compartir aficiones o actividades conjuntas, la rutina, la falta de ilusión, la dejadez.....y muchísimas más cosas que de seguro much@s podrían tener en mente mientras leen estas líneas y son estas cosas las que permiten que se vaya llenando el vaso imaginario de la relación, con gotitas amargas de insatisfacción que vamos bebiendo día a día , siendo éstas un veneno para nuestra salud física y mental... y empieza el caos en la relación de pareja y es entonces cuando se busca , o sin querer se encuentra, otra bebida más dulce que te hace olvidar la amargura e infelicidad en la que crees que está abocada tu existencia.
Si pensáis que esto tiene moraleja que la aporte cualquier otro, yo voy a "abrocharme el cinturón", no vaya a ser que vengan baches por contar estas historias.
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Continuación de la Historia: la mujer de Ginés aguantó hasta que el avión tomó tierra y no le dijo nada a su marido hasta que volvió a casa.
Él , por supuesto, lo negó todo, y quiso incluso hacerle creer a su ,- hasta ese día-, ... ella creía ,...querida esposa que esa mujer era una loca que le perseguía, que se le había abalanzado ese día en el avión, que jamás había visto a esa mujer en su vida ni mucho menos había tenído relación íntima con ella....y sabéis qué? Ginés, por llamarle de alguna manera, había estado liado con esa mujer nada más y nada menos que cinco años.....pero le salió bien a Ginés y es que tiene una verborrea , un carisma, un don innato encantador ...y de contar historias y echar mentiras, ....que parece que haya nacido para el teatro...y no para estar metido en una oficina y mucho menos ser militar.
La tonta de ella le creyó. Eso sí, llevará cuernos mientras viva ,porque hay hombres que no cambiarán nunca ( que si, que si, y mujeres también!!)
María.-
i took like 60 different shots for today. i love the way this turned out.
shannon is not here cause shes pet sitting. 7 dogs, 2 cats, 5 miniature horses and a llama. no i'm not kidding.
this week is gonna be all about reading the script for the show im designing at the begining of Sept. y'all gotta stay on me to get it done!
365 - 7.26.09
Abandoned mansion of Baron de Viron in Bellegem. The baroness still lives in the house next to it.
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Update 14/06/2011:
Apparently, this photo is subject to some discussion at the urbanexplorersforum.nl forum.
I have no access, so I'm not sure what it's all about. I did receive a polite message from a person that probably is a forum member, with the suggestion to remove the address of this mansion from the page:
"Hoe u met uw info omgaat is uw goed recht. Echter, om het adres op en bloot op Flickr te plaatsen omtrent maison Viron is niet zo handig. Het is een bekende plaats waar een bepaalde groep fotografen heen gaan en het niet zo prettig vinden dat deze info vrij op het net staat. Er komen ook andere personalia op af zoals meubeldieven etc. Er zijn nogal wat interieurfoto's die ook online staan.
Het zou dus prettig zijn deze te verwijderen. "
Translated:
"How you deal with your info is your own right. However, to post the 'maison Viron' mansion's address on Flickr is not so convenient. It is a known place visited by a certain group of photographers, which don't like this information to be freely available on the net. It also attracts other people, such as furniture thieves, etc. There are quite a few interior photos that are online.
So it would be nice to remove it."
My reply simply stated that any information provided on this photo page is already freely available on the net. I do not add any information not yet publicly available.
I would also like to get a chance to read what that forum discussion is all about, and express my opinion. If there are any good arguments, I'm willing to comply to the request. But I doubt there will be. Can anyone help me to register on urbanexplorersforum.nl ? I was unable to find a register page.
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Update 28/06/2011:
A bit late with posting this update :-)
The reply I got on my email (that same day), goes like this:
"Maar heb je wel toestemming gekregen van de eigenaren van de webpagina's die je weergeeft, volgens mij geven die daar geen toestemming voor. Sterker nog, dit weet ik wel zeker, ik ken er een aantal persoonlijk.
Op het forum zult u geen toegang krijgen omdat dit een urbexforum betreft. Ieder die al een poos die hobby uitoefent en al de nodige resultaten kan laten zien wordt aangenomen, de ander resoluut geweigerd om deze praktijken tegen te gaan.
En nogmaals, u mag met de info doen wat u wilt omtrent Viron. Maar dat het open en bloot op het internet al staat wil nog niet zeggen dat u er aan moet bijdragen dit uit te breiden. Ter uwer info, ik heb het bewuste draadje geopend op dat forum om elkaar scherp te houden wie er goed en wie er slecht met info omspringt.
Hier eindigt alle contact tussen u en mij....."
Translated:
"But did you get permission from the owners of the webpages that you provide a link to? According to me they don't give permission. In fact, I know for sure, I know some of them personally."
I can only repeat what I have said before: I provide what's already available on the internet.
If the 'owners' of the webpages I link to would ask if I'd remove the links, I will. If they can prove they are the owners, of course.
"You won't get access to the forum because it's an urbexforum. Anyone that exercises this hobby for a while and can show the necessary results is accepted, any others are resolutely denied in order to prevent such practices."
I don't get this. I am denied access to this forum because I'm not an 'urbex'. So far, I can follow. But how is not allowing me on the forum going to prevent me from posting the information that I have? If they would grant me access, they might convince me to remove that information.
"I repeat, you can do what you want with the info on Viron. That it is already freely available on the internet does not mean you should contribute on its availability. FYI, it was I who started the thread on that forum to keep each other sharp on who handles info in a good way or bad."
I guess I'll be one of the bad guys, then. If I don't get a chance to defend myself, or give 'them' a chance to convince me to follow their rules, so be it.
"Here ends all contact between you and me...."
Well, OK, then. That's very mature.
Even if I wasn't allowed on that forum, at least I had one contact to exchange ideas with. But if this person chooses to end a discussion that hasn't had a chance to really start, I'll respect that. I haven't answered that mail. And because all contact has ended, I doubt that person will come back to read my thoughts in here.
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The baroness does not appreciate visitors, but many have entered to take pictures:
www.flickr.com/photos/x-itje/sets/72157601106012373/with/...
www.urbexannie.nl/locatiesbelgie/MaisondeViron.htm
web251.webgo24-server8.de/maison_de_viron/
www.residues.net/viron_uk.html
gallery.jurgroessen.nl/main.php?g2_itemId=6891
www.noplaceto.be/Viron/index.html
www.talkurbex.com/2009/08/a-walkthrough-maison-de-viron/
www.luxurbex.com/gallery-maison-de-viron.html
www.brunas.nl/pixelpost/index.php?showimage=467
www.flickr.com/photos/cvanfleteren/sets/72157601106051893/
Beschrijving
Walleweg nr. 13. Z.g. "Mortagnekasteel". Landhuis in cottagestijl van ca. 1925, opgetrokken in opdracht van en naar ontwerp van baron de Viron. Gelegen in groot park met twee dreven één vanuit Walleweg en een tweede vanuit Bellegemseplaats. Typerend materiaalgebruik, i.e. gediversifieerde geel-oranje baksteen afgewisseld met gecementeerde delen (geschilderd) en imitatievakwerk. Combinatie van volumes met centraal blok onder pannen schilddak. Dakkapellen met hellende daken of zadeldaken, boven inkom uitgewerkte dakkapel. Drieledige, korfbogige en overluifelde inkompartij met bordestrap. Erboven driezijdige houten erker. Rechthoekige en segmentvormige vensters in (simili)natuurstenen omlijsting met negblokken. In tuin romantische waterput en tuinpaviljoen. ( inventaris.vioe.be/dibe/relict/60577 )
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Santa Fe de Montseny - Fogars de Montclús, Barcelona (Spain).
10ª salida del grupo SortidaZ, y primera a la que me apunto. Un día muy agradable, gozando de la naturaleza en muy buena compañía.
Ya sé que no es la única imagen así de la "sortida", pero era inevitable mirar hacia arriba entre estos hayas tan altos y rectos. En esta época del año ya han perdido casi todo su follaje. En primavera y verano puede resultar casi imposible ver el cielo desde este mismo punto.
ENGLISH
The European Beech or Common Beech (Fagus sylvatica) is a deciduous tree belonging to the beech family Fagaceae.
It is a large tree, capable of reaching heights of up to 49 m (160 ft) tall [2] and 3m (10 ft) trunk diameter, though more typically 25-35 m (80-115 ft) tall and up to 1.5 m (5 ft) trunk diameter. A 10-year-old sapling will stand about 4 m (13 ft) tall. It has a typical lifespan of 150 to 200 years, though sometimes up to 300 years. The appearance varies according to its habitat; in forest conditions, it tends to have a long, slender light-gray trunk with a narrow crown and erect branches, in isolation with good side light the trunk is short with a large and widely spreading crown with very long branches.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Beech
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CASTELLANO
El haya (Fagus sylvatica L.) es un árbol caducifolio perteneciente a la familia de las fagáceas.
Esta especie tiene un porte robusto y de gran talla, alcanzando los 35 ó 40 m con un tronco recto, que lo hace muy valioso, y una copa ovalada en su tercio superior. Si el árbol crece aislado (no en espesura) cambia radicalmente, se abre muy pronto, siendo algo irregular, ramificándose desde abajo y variando mucho la copa.
Conserva la corteza prácticamente lisa durante toda su vida, de un gris ceniciento o blanquecino.Los ramillos tienen un crecimiento singular en zig-zag. Las hojas son simples, alternas en los tallos jóvenes, en los adultos salen en fascículos sobre pequeños braquiblastos, y caedizas. Son de peciolo corto y, el limbo es de forma ovalada, con el borde ondulado, en principio algo festoneado y prolongándose en un vello sedoso muy característico. Tienen los nervios laterales bien marcados y paralelos (penninervia), son de un color verde muy vivo por el haz volviéndose más oscuras en la madurez, y se disponen siempre en posición muy horizontal captando la mayor cantidad de luz posible. Ello hace que sus bosques tengan un aspecto un tanto sombrío, casi propio de cuento de hadas, no permitiendo crecer en el suelo a apenas ninguna otra planta.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayedo
"Home baked pie" in classical soft focus and blurred vignette background treatment, this is my interpretation of the past; I made it a bit blurry as I may not know how the place may really looked like but in my vision, this is my own rendition.
Feel the melancholy of the past... Image taken at the Heritage Stewart farm house Circa 1894.
The house was beautifully restored by the city council... feel the nostalgia and find out how people lived in the 1800's....
You may say that we are lucky to be born in this modern era, where everything is ready and served and water source is readily available within our reach :o)
Photography © 2010, ™Lisa M., All Rights Reserved
Olympus released a new 'flagship' camera in 2011, the E-5. It was the camera I had been waiting to buy.
Unfortunately, they also announced it would be their last 4/3 DSLR - that future cameras would be all electronic and that they would likely continue to focus on the Micro 4/3 line.
For the second time in their history, they have chosen to abandon their semi-professional line of cameras.
I love Olymups' lenses, but I won't work with cameras that do not have optical viewfinders. I am old-fashioned I guess - stubborn too. I also will not continue to invest in a dead-end line of cameras.
So, with a heavy heart I will start selling off my Olympus equipment next week to finance a shift to Pentax a K5 if the fund raising goes well, or a K7 if it goes less well.
So long Oly, it really has been good to know you.
I never used to drink coffee. After I moved to Guelph a few years ago I tried it. Then I tried our local Planet Bean Coffee...... and it was all over. I now buy freshly roasted coffee every week or so.... and grind it in my new burr grinder right before I brew it in my french press. I have somehow become a coffee snob. Never saw it coming.
A bonus of drinking Planet Bean coffee is that it is Fair Trade and Organic!
Camera: Nikon D700 [ISO 200]:[5s] Lens:135mm 2.8 AIS [f4]
Strobist: SB900 @ 17mm 1/8th power, into 28" wescott softbox camera right. Used a whiteboard to attempt to reflect some of the light back to left side of subject.
Triggered by PWII's.
After the flash went off, I used a small pen flashlight and made quick circles in the air during the remainder of the 5 second exposure. I kind of like this one because the "halo" is all messed up. it sure is hard to draw a straight line while reaching over your setup in the dark. single exposure, no photoshop editing.
I recently returned from a trip to the state of Oregon, where I was treated to some of the most breathtaking landscapes you can imagine. We were very fortunate to have two experienced guides to take us into some of the most remote areas of the state. I brought home some of my best images to date, most of which would not have been possible without Jason and Maria to lead the way. I am indebted to them. On this particular outing they indulged my desire to capture the light of the setting sun on the west face of the mountain to the point that we arrived back at the car in near total darkness.
This was a hard earned image taken from near the top of Castle Dome in Castle Crags State Park, looking back into Oregon from just over the border in California. To get to this vantage point requires a 5-1/2 mile round trip hike with an elevation gain of 2,200 ft. to a total elevation of approx. 5,500 ft. This really tested my endurance, but it was worth every step.
my power animal is the orca : )
The Orca is found in all seas from the Arctic to the Antarctic. The familiar black and white coloring of the Orca is significant. From a spiritual point of view it represents lessons of a soul nature regarding polarity. Orcas assist us in acquiring balance within a world of opposites.
From a physical point of view it is a strategy of camouflage. Seen from above their dark back blends in with the darker water below them, while from below, their whiter bellies blend in with the sunlit waters above. This symbolizes the ability to move through life seen or unseen depending on the situation. Learning the art of camouflage is advantageous for those with this medicine. Proper action and reaction, observation and expression are all linked to this art.
The orca swims in formation either in a line or in rows. This indicates good organizational skills and the ability to work cooperatively with others.
Each pod has its own distinctive dialect which allow members of the same pod to recognize one another even if they get separated. Those with this medicine are able to instantly identify members of their original soul group. Although personalities may differ a strong sense of family is known. Life lessons as well as spiritual aspirations are similar. Reuniting with members of the same soul group can trigger a sense of great joy or it can awaken heart felt grief as memories surface about a previous loss. Those with this totem should remember that once a reunion has been established, emotional support for one another will always be available.
Orca medicine people are very creative although they can have a tendency to keep their creativity hidden or allow their creativity to rule their lives. Those with this totem should pay attention to the way in which the orca appears to them. If it is seen breaching out of the water it is asking you to surface from the depths of your inner reflection and express yourself outwardly in a grounded and creative way.
If seen injured or beached it could indicate a need to take care of your health. Orcas often get parasites, bacterial and fungal infections. Hodgkin's disease has been recorded in killer whales. From an emotional perspective this disease is linked to low self esteem and the fear of being accepted. The orca holds the teachings of fearlessness, beauty, power and balance. It can awaken these same qualities within you. All you need to do is ask."
Today we tried hard to shot something like "deceasing" by brookeshaden or "i stood still for a moment" by rosiehardy and after failing again we ended up with this levitation shot.
Thanks to Pam for her patience... :)
Texture by: kelly connor
Inspiration: transcend by Stoker Studios. This is really one of my favourite shot on levitation. Simply wonderful.
Best viewed LARGE on Black: bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=3521062669&size...
We usually stay in Bed and Breakfasts or Hostels, so the night that we spent here was quite a splurge for us. I wanted to spend one night in Baslow because it is located at one of the pedestrian gates to Chatsworth. The website had described the place as a "Restaurant with Rooms", but after checking in early one afternoon and taking a quick look around, I joked with the owners that they shouls call it "A Garden with Rooms and Food".
www.fischers-baslowhall.co.uk/about-us/history
We rested a little and then headed into Chatsworth for the afternoon, and did not get back to our room until almost dark. We had been upgraded to a very quiet, cool room in the garden house. We treated ourselves the next morning by sleeping in, and then luxuriously lounging around in the garden for most of the morning before ending our stay with an outstanding lunch. How civilized! Then it was on to the hostel in Hartington for five nights.
If you run the slideshow in full screen mode, it will take you past a few scenes in Baslow itself, and then on a tour of the Gardens at Baslow Hall, ending with a few quickly taken interior shots of the Hall itself before our lunch.
I took a lot of photos that looked much nicer than this, but my view finder did not tell me what was really happening… I was using my 12mm lens with a circular polarizer filter which when used together make a huge dark blue blob in the middle of the sky. I am now going to sell off that filter… och! Funny thing was just before I took this trip I found an article warning not to use a CPF with a wide angle lens for just this very exact reason… yeah, I need to learn to listen, but it was exactly because of that warning that I took this one shot without it on.