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I started writing something about landscape and colours for this photograph but realised I wasn’t feeling any of it. What I feel when I look at this photo is tranquillity, a sense of peace, a sense of joy and wonder and a realisation that we are incredibly lucky to live in such a beautiful world. So why are we hell bent on destroying it? Not just nature; but each other. Why do all news stories talk about violence, destruction and discrimination? Why have we become such hateful, vengeful beasts? Why don’t we show compassion anymore? Why don’t we ever repent our actions? Is this what we are evolving into?
I wish I had more answers.
Symphony of Lights, Hong Kong
"The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it."
-- Louis I Kahn
EXPLORE! June 28, 2009 #44
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:: Be yourself....!, Berthierville, Québec, Canada.
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Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae. The name "Sturnidae" comes from the Latin word for Starling, sturnus. Starlings occur naturally in the Old World, from Europe, Asia and Africa, to northern Australia and the islands of the tropical Pacific. Several European and Asian species have been introduced to these areas as well as North America, Hawaii and New Zealand, where they generally compete for habitat with native birds and are considered to be invasive species.
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Los Mallos de Riglos están situados en la localidad de Riglos, en la provincia de Huesca (España), unos 45 Km. al noroeste de Huesca capital.
Situados en el prepirineo oscense, están formados de conglomerados del mioceno, sedimentos con cantos rodados de tamaño significativo cementados por grava y arena, que tuvieron su origen en los conos de deyección de cauces que vertían hacia la antigua depresión central del Ebro. Estos depósitos aluviales han sido elevados por plegamientos de las capas inferiores y posteriormente erosionados, dando lugar a estas impresionantes paredes, de las que hay otros ejemplos menores en la cercana Agüero y en otros puntos del prepirineo.
Es un paraíso de montañeros, escaladores, y amantes de la naturaleza, con fácil acceso superior para unos y con espectaculares paredes verticales de aspecto redondeado para otros y que inspiraron la asignación de sus nombres: El Puro, El Pisón, Castilla, Volaos, Cuchillo, Frenchín, Visera y Fire. Por sus paredes han pasado la mayor parte de los escaladores españoles, incluyendo a los míticos Alberto Rabadá y Ernesto Navarro que abrieron muchas de las vías de escalada de los Mallos de Riglos.
Una leyenda cuenta que anteriormente había en los Mallos de Riglos una aldea, Foz de Escalete, en la que vivía una anciana bruja gigantesca. Su aspecto y tamaño atemorizaban a los aldeanos y cansada de esto, levantó las inmensas rocas y allí se escondió de todos.
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This tree group is called The House and in the middle you see a couple of dark spots.. those are my older son and wife.. this is to show you the size of things. =)
Cheers everyone from the Sequoias!
EXPLORED!
... il confine tra buoni e cattivi passa attravero il cuore di ciascuno.
E chi eliminerebbe volentieri parte del proprio cuore?
[cit. Aleksandr Isaevič Solženicyn]
Explored, Feb 20, 2009 #105
I can't tell ya baby what went wrong
I can't make you feel what you felt so long ago
I'll let it show
I can't give you back what's been hurt
Heartaches come and go and all that's left are the words
I can't let go
If we take some time to think it over baby
Take some time, let me know
If you really want to go
Don't know what you got till it's gone
Don't know what it is I did so wrong
Now I know what I got
It's just this song
And it ain't easy to get back
Takes so long
I can't feel the things that cause you pain
I can't clear my heart of your love it falls like rain
Ain't the same
I hear you calling far away
Tearing through my soul I just can't take another day
Who's to blame
If we take some time to think it over baby
Take some time let me know
If you really wanna go
Don't know what you got till it's gone
Don't know what it is I did so wrong
Now I know what I got
It's just this song
And it ain't easy to get back
Takes so long
Do you wanna see me beggin' baby
Can't you give me just one more day
Can't you see my heart's been draggin' lately
I've been lookin' for the words to say
Don't know what you got till it's gone
Don't know what it is I did so wrong
Now I know what I got
It's just this song
And it ain't easy to get back
Takes so long
Don't know what you got till it's gone no
Don't know what it is I did so wrong
Now I know what I got
It's just this song
And it ain't easy to get back
Takes so long
~Cinderella~
Pals, Girona (Spain).
ENGLISH
The variety of environments and the extraordinary biodiversity of the waters surrounding the tiny archipelago of Medes Islands, located barely a mile from the village of L'Estartit, in the heart of the Costa Brava, make it a unique spot and one of the most emblematic in the Mediterranean.
The emerged part of this Protected Area is an archipelago formed by seven islets: Medellot, Meda Gran, Meda Petita, Ferrenelles, Tascó Gros, Tascó Petit and Carall Bernat.
Man has always found them interesting, as we can see from the remains of shipwrecks in the surrounding waters. Pirates used these islands as a base for their raids along the coast and they have been a site of military and strategic importance from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century. They were inhabited until 1934.
Protection of the islands began in 1983 with an Order of the Government of Catalonia. In 1985 a resolution established compulsory rules in the restricted area and in 1990, Law 19/1990 became the legal framework for the protection and conservation of the flora and fauna of the sea bed of the Medes Islands and part of the Montgrí coast, between La Roca del Molinet and Punta Salines.
Source: mediambient.gencat.net/eng//el_medi/parcs_de_catalunya/me...
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La variedad de ambientes y la extraordinaria biodiversidad de las aguas que rodean el pequeño archipiélago de las Islas Medas, situado aproximadamente a una milla de la población de L'Estartit -justo en medio de la Costa Brava-, constituyen un paraje único y uno de los más emblemáticos del Mediterráneo.
La parte emergida de este Área Protegida es un archipiélago formado por siete islotes: el Medellot, la isla de la Meda Gran, la Meda Petita, les Ferrenelles, el Tascó Gros, el Tascó Petit y el Carall Bernat.
Las comunidades humanas siempre las han considerado un punto de interés, tal y como lo demuestran los restos de naufragios encontrados en esas aguas. Los piratas las usaban como base para sus incursiones en la costa y fueron objeto de importancia militar y estratégica desde la Edad Media hasta finales del s. XIX. Estuvieron pobladas hasta 1934.
La protección de las islas se inició en 1983 con una Orden de la Generalidad de Cataluña. En 1985, una resolución establecía normas de cumplimiento obligatorio en la zona vetada y en 1990, la Ley 19/1990, se convirtió en el marco jurídico de la protección y la conservación de la flora y fauna del fondo marino de las Islas Medes y de la parte de litoral de El Montgrí, entre la Roca del Molinet y Punta Salines.
Fuente: mediambient.gencat.net/esp//el_medi/parcs_de_catalunya/me...
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Though I usually feel very confident in creating great art, there's still nothing better than being in an inspirational location with another inspirational artist. Hannah and I ran across this "swing" the first day we were at the building and took guesses at what it was really used for. When we came back the next day, I knew I wanted to incorporate it into a photo and it turned out better than I imagined.
View On Black I hope it works today - please let me know, when you can't view the black?! It kinda sucks sometimes, that flickr just provides a white background. I mean, what's the point in taking a picture with a certain atmosphere (perhaps a little creepy or so) and then a white background and a PINK r destroys everything? :-))
Ok, that'll be the last upload of this location. Probably it gets too boring then. I have already told a lot of things about that place. I can't come up with anything new :-)
Oh, and if you really like to see a dead cat - it's the image previously uploaded to the stream. If you can't see it, check your filters :-)
And yes, i'd really like to thank all of you guys for the support on this photo. It finally reached #3 on explore (highest) and even showed up on the frontpage. (first time, as far as i know?) :-) thank you!!!
Luke 2:12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
THE CHRISTMAS NUT! This is a true story that happened a few years ago in my church. Sunday school was just let out and the little ones came filtering back up from the basement to the main church auditorium in Indian River Baptist Church. A young mother was rejoined by her two youngest. They came up to her very excited because of the cute craft they had just made in their classes. The boy was 3 and the girl 5 years old. They showed Mom the cradle manger made from a cardboard tube which had been cut in half lengthwise, turned over and the two halves stapled together. A whole peanut in the shell had been wrapped in a scrap of swaddling from paper towel and a face drawn on it. This baby Jesus was then placed in the cradle manger with some straw made from recycled junk mail. The little boy had already eaten his peanut and loudly exclaimed, “Jesus is a nut!”
Out of the mouths of infants He has perfected praise! Yes, Jesus is a nut! Who else would be crazy enough to leave the glories of Heaven and be born as a human baby with only one goal in mind: to die for the sins of the world? Who else would love me so much to suffer such shame, mockery, pain, separation, denial and betrayal ? Who but our beloved Savior would be nutty enough to become sin for me that I might be made the righteousness of God in Him? Oh, yes, Jesus did the craziest thing for me, but the most wonderful and beautiful thing that anyone ever did! Praise God for His unspeakable gift!
When you get out those special holiday mixed nuts, think of Jesus and His absolutely crazy love for you! As you put them under the pressure of the nutcracker and they burst open, meditate upon the unthinkable pressure put upon Jesus upon the Cross and of His broken Heart, Body and crushed Spirit all for you!
If you haven’t yet come to understand His once for all completed sacrifice, if you never accepted this “Christmas Nut”, will you finally make the decision right now? Receive Him as your personal Savior with the heart of a child just like the little boy who gladly ate the peanut.
“Whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:13
Please share this message and/or photo in your cards this year, print it, forward, use it to the glory of God!
Kathie Luther* Heart Windows Ministry*
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También de la sesión ayer con luz natural y sin flash, esta es en otro sector de mi casa, había mas luz, lo cual me permitió congelar mejor las gotas, pero también mas reflejos en el vidrio que tuve que clonar... Llevo mas trabajo de edición que la otra.
Espero les guste!
Que tengan una linda noche y un jueves excelente!!
Besote!
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The ‘Bon Ami Point Range Front’ lighthouse was constructed on Inch Arran Point in 1870. It was built to guide steamers and other vessels to safety at night. Prior to the construction of the lighthouse, a woman by the name of Marie-Louise (Landry) Arsenault, the "medicine-woman" whose house was very close to Inch Arran, placed a bright light in one of her windows to guide her sons, who were captains of the boats coming into Dalhousie. Mrs. Arsenault did this for many years before it was decided that an actual lighthouse would be built nearby. Under the Federal Heritage Buildings Policy, the Bon Ami lighthouse became recognized as a Federal Heritage Building on September 5, 1991. To this day the lighthouse remains in operation and in clear weather, can be seen at a distance of 16 miles. It is a perfect spot for panormanic photographs, birdwatching, and it is a stone's throw from the Inch Arran Park campground where you will find a gift shop featuring local crafts and artwork as well as a Visitor Information Centre.
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+3: عكس از لحاظ تكنیک و موضوع بدون اشكال است. (عکس خلاقانه، جدید، و دارای اجرایی با کیفیت و قدرتمند است. از لحاظ تکنیک و موضوع عالی است.)
2+: عكس با كیفیت است ولی بهتر هم می توانست باشد. ـ مشکلات اندکی از لحاظ تکنیک یا موضوع دارد.
1+: در كل تلاش خوبی توسط عكاس انجام شده ولی نیاز به اصلاح و بهبود دارد. عکس دارای مشکلات تکنیکی یا موضوعی است. عکس با وجود کیفیت بالا ایدهای تکراری است.
0: نکات مثبت و منفی عکس یکسان است و در کل عکاس باید دقت بیشتری در انتخاب ارسالهای خود داشته باشد.
1-: عكس غیرفنی و بدون انگیزه است. مشکلات فنی زیادی دارد و حاوی موضوع قابل درکی نیست. کیفیت عکس از لحاظ سایز یا رنگ یا شارپنس خیلی پایین است.
2-: دارای اشكالات تكنیكی جدی و بدیهی است. به عنوان یک عکس بسیار مشکل دارد. موضوع ندارد و اجرای ناکارآمدی دارد. مشکلات تکنیکی فراوان در نور، رنگ و سایر مولفههای فنی دارد.
3-: عكس از هر نظر نامناسب و غیر قابل قبول است. به عنوان عکس اصلا پذیرفتنی نیست. مشکلات آن از هر لحاظ بیشتر از آن است که به عنوان یک عکس امتیاز بگیرد. موضوع عکس مناسب این سایت و نمایش عمومی نیست
King Neptune and his court BIG On Black
King Neptune and his court ready to begin the ceremony.
King Neptune, Queen, five Police, Barber, Astronomer, Doctor and Nurse
Baptism on the line, also called equatorial baptism, is an initiation ritual sometimes performed as a ship crosses the Equator, involving water baptism of passengers or crew who have never crossed the Equator before. The ceremony is sometimes explained as being an initiation into the court of King Neptune.
The ritual is the subject of a painting by Matthew Benedict named The Mariner's Baptism and of a 1961 book by Henning Henningsen named Crossing the Equator: Sailor's Baptism and Other Initiation Rites.
Here is a photograph from last week of Niagara Falls that includes both the American Falls and the left edge of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls..with a beautiful rainbow. The mist was quite heavy and I had a hard time to get a good shot of the rainbow..........I hope you all enjoy this view. I so enjoy walking along the Falls on a beautiful day like this!!. When you are in the Falls and get to see a huge rainbow like this one..it's pretty hard to forget ;)
I have been very busy lately and will be away again for a couple of days....I will be back to normal at the end of the week...and catch up with everyone then......
Cheers everyone!! Enjoy!!
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The Moon does not orbit Earth in a perfect circle. Instead, it follows an elliptical path that brings it 50,000 kilometres closer to our planet on one side of its orbit. On 12 December, the Moon will enter its full phase, when its disc appears completely illuminated by the Sun, just four hours after reaching its closest point to Earth. This will make it 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full Moons in 2008. It will be eight years before the Moon appears so big again. Also it is expected to have an effect on Earth's tides.
Photo of the moon taken at its closest point to Earth in the northern hemisphere on 12 December 2008 around midnight. The full Moon will also appear higher in the sky than any other year. At this time the moon will shine down from nearly overhead. The landscape of Château de Peyrepertuse is a PS composite. Photo properties ISO100, 1/400s, f/7.1, zoom 648mm and spot metering
Op 12 december bereikt de maan tevens de kleinste afstand tot de aarde in 356.567 kilometer. De Volle Maan van deze avond dan ook de grootste van het jaar. De maan is 14% groter en 30% lichter als normaal. 's Nachts kunnen we de maan vaak zien. Overdag staat ze ook wel eens aan de hemel, maar dan is ze minder opvallend omdat de zon schijnt. In de avond, de nacht, of in de vroege ochtend zie je haar des te beter. Het lijkt alsof ze licht geeft, net als de zon. Maar de maan geeft geen licht. Ze wordt beschenen door de zon, net als de aarde. Het licht weerkaatst en daarom lijkt het of de maan schijnt. Toch is het zonder maan 's nachts een tikje donkerder dan met de maan. Met een heldere, volle maan kun je 's nachts zelfs een schaduw van jezelf op de grond zien! De maan hoort bij de aarde. Met z'n tweeën suizen ze door het heelal, ieder jaar een rondje om de zon. De maan draait ook nog een ander rondje; ze draait om de aarde. Ze doet er bijna een maand over om één rondje te gaan. De maan is zelf natuurlijk ook heel groot. Ze heeft dus ook haar eigen zwaartekracht. Sterker nog; de maan trekt een beetje aan de aarde. Dat merk je aan het water van de zee. Als het vloed wordt, wil de maan het water als het ware naar zich toe trekken. Dat lukt natuurlijk niet, want de aarde trekt veel harder. Maar je merkt het wel! Het water komt dan veel verder op het strand. Dat gebeurt elke dag twee keer. De maan trekt niet alleen aan het water, zelfs de bergen zijn een paar millimeter hoger als de maan boven hun toppen staat! Het maanlandschap bestaat uit heuvels, kraters, zand en rotsen. Waar de zon schijnt is het gloeiend heet; 100 graden Celsius boven nul. Waar geen zon komt vriest het 150 graden Celsius onder nul.
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well doesn't this look familiar?
no good unless you view here
Can you guess the movie?:
When you're young, everything feels like the end of the world.
But it's not.
It's just the beginning.
You might have to meet a few jerks,
but one day,
you're gonna meet a boy
who treats you the way you deserve to be treated.
Like the sun rises and sets with you.
Ok, so the real reason I uploaded this is because i was tagged by sara.kross. She's amazing! Check out her stream! I love all her photos so much :)
I know I did this before, but I've changed a lot since then. I thought I'd be a little more serious with this one and answer some questions i've gotten in my flickrmail. Maybe even ask you a few...hmmm?
1. I got the question "why don't you upload more pictures of yourself?" The answer to that is actually really simple. It's because I don't have a remote and I get tired of the ten second dash and the inability for my camera to focus is i'm not standing there the whole time. But hopefully, Christmas will be the time to fix that problem...
2. Someone also asked me where I got the models. My models are actually just friends from school. I live in an area where it seems like everyone is super skinny and gorgeous so it's not hard to find someone who looks like one, but i really love taking photos of girls that don't have that perfect body. I just wish that people would find a photo of someone they considered unattractive to be just as interesting as the ones of someone they do.
3. Another question was do you want to do this professionally. Um...i don't know yet...I know I probably wouldn't do it full time, even though I would like too. But my mom doesn't particularly approve of being a photographer, so i think i really want to be a third or fourth grade teacher and maybe take pictures during the summer?
Here come the facts and questions for you...
4. I'm adopted. Now tell me an interesting fact about you.
5. I greatly enjoy photography because the view from my side of the lens is only my own and no one else can see through it unless I allow them to through the photograph. What's your favorite part about photography?
6. I love love love getting together with other photographers and attempting to see their visions. I would love to do more of this (anyone live around here?). Do you prefer to work by yourself or with someone? Not necessarily in photography, just in general.
7. Music is a good escape for me. I love the sound of acoustics. In fact, I play/played the acoustic guitar. Not so much anymore, but I still play the piano quite often. Who/what's your favorite type of music, artist, etc.
8. Wow this is long. When I was reading through it I know I only read the bold parts. Are you only reading the parts that are bolded?
9. For Christmas, I would like a remote, money, a new journal for my overflowing quote book, a new living translation bible, and an air freshener for my car. It smells like something died in the back seat. Even if something did, i wouldn't notice because my car is so messy. For example, in my trunk, there is a cot, a guitar, a ton of fake flowers, lots of schoolwork, glitter, an easter basket, a basketball, costume jewelry, a fiddler on the roof record, a cowboy hat, lots and lots of clothes, etc. Seriously, there is a LOT of stuff in my car. So I have two questions...What do you want for Christmas? and What's weird in your car?
10. I enjoy solitude almost more than I enjoy being with people. I'm usually happier with people, but it doesn't give me time to think. Would you rather be alone in this world or constantly surrounded by people?
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I was so taken with Monknash beach on my frst visit Friday afternoon that I took my girlfriend back the next day, lured by the promise of good food and ales at the Plough and Harrow just up the road (delicious faggotts incidentally and a rather tastey Pontypridd-brewed pale ale).
What I liked about this scene (taken just after sunset) was the soft light, pastel colour and soft formless clouds and water all being cut through by the rough slab of rock.
I had A blast shooting with you guys!
Frank does the most amazong butterly shots...well all of his stuff is gorgeous but his butterfly shots are to die for.
Cilinia has amazing animal shots but I gotta tell ya her people pics are outstanding simply amazing the way she captures someone in her pics!
Now Valerie is the Polar Bear Queen but let me tell you what ever she points that Camera at shows all the beauty and color and well it's what's in her heart. These three people are amazing and I am better for having them as my friends!
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Hello Friends,
Thanks for stopping by. I just wanted to let you all know that I value all thegracious attention you have given to the photos in my stream and I appreciate each and every one of you.
I will be limiting the time I spend on Flickr due to my other responsibilities. I have been posting daily and as a result developed relationships with many people and I just cannot keep up. So I will probably only be posting maybe two to three times a week.
I will make every effort to get to your streams and show my appreciation for your work. Thanks for your understanding... Brian
Shiva is the god of creation.
He is worshiped in the form of lingam (phallus).
Because from there creation is coming.
But this works only when lingam is put in yoni (vagina).
In Sanskrit the meaning of yoni is holy place.
In Hindu temples lingam and yoni are nicely carved from stone.
In Malaysia there are also Chinese venerating Shiva.
Chinese are very pragmatic and clever people.
So this Chinese built cheaply his own open air temple.
With materials for lingam and yoni from a nearby construction site.
Now he can do his prayers whenever he likes and weather condition allows.
As experienced and photographed in Penang, Malaysia.
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Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
Accepted for Australian Photographic Society, 3rd NATURE NATIONAL EXHIBITION, Insects Section, and included as part of the gallery at www.a-p-s.org.au/index.php/gallerie/nature-div-gallery/3r...
...from a walk in Oxley Creek Common.
Monarch (USA), Wanderer (Australia) Butterfly (Landscape version)
Scientific Name: Nymphalidae Danainae
Description: The monarch is one of Manitoba's largest butterflies, with a wingspan of up to 100 mm. The body of the butterfly is black with some white spots. The upper surfaces of the wings are orange with black veining. The wing margins are black with white spots. Males can be distinguished from the females by a black patch on their hind wings, called a stigmata. Underneath, the wings are a paler orange, almost beige, with the same black veining and borders. The caterpillar (larva) of monarchs is boldly patterned, too, with black, white and yellow banding.
Distribution: Monarchs occur throughout North America south of the boreal forest zone, in Central America and northern South America. (It has recently been determined that the South American monarch and those found on Jamaica and Hispaniola are separate species, D. erippus and D. cleophile, respectively. Their distributions are not shown on this map.) Monarchs have been introduced to the Hawaiian Islands and to Australia (1871), and are thought to be spreading around to other islands in the Pacific ocean on their own. There are 3 separate populations in continental North America: one east of the Rocky Mountains, another west of the Rockies, and a third, non-migratory population in Florida and Georgia. In Manitoba, they occur in the southwestern 1/3 of the province up to the edge of the boreal forest.
Habitat: Just about anywhere you can find milkweed plants (Genus: Asclepias) and open meadows, you can find monarch butterflies. They frequent prairies, meadows and wetlands, but avoid thick forests. Food for the caterpillars, milkweed plants, and for the adults, flower nectar, are found mainly in grasslands and meadows in Manitoba, so that's where monarchs tend to be.
Food: Food for adult monarch butterflies consists mainly of flower nectar. They fuel their great travels and reproductive efforts by sipping this sugary solution from obliging plants. The plants are, of course, taking advantage of the monarchs and other insects to do the job of pollination. Most of their favourites fall within the Asteraceae family of plants, including such things as fleabanes (Erigeron spp.), asters (Aster spp.), sunflowers (Helianthus spp.) and blazingstars (Liatris spp.), but they are not really that selective when it comes to flower nectar. Any flower that has available nectar could be visited by a monarch.
(Source: www.naturenorth.com/summer/monarch/monarchF2.html)
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Yup that is Valerie
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and this is Tony
flickr.com/photos/tberling/2084677355/
Now let me explain, Valerie and I received the coolest Christmas present ever ...from my fabulous hubby.
Tony went to the Wolf Park in Indiana and got these awesome shots so I of course wanted to go and Lou (the hubby) didn't want me to go alone so he said take Valerie. He went and got us each a full day photo shoot. He is the bomb, Ha, we both are so excited, the only thing is it isn't till March and I think I am going to burst.
This is a link to the park. It is so cool
Make sure you drop by Tonys' site here on Flickr his pics are amazing
www.cortonaonthemove.com/index.php?cID=442
www.cortonaonthemove.com/index.php?cID=442
DARCY PADILLA | FAMILY LOVE
Il progetto a più lungo termine di Darcy Padilla, Family Love, si è sviluppato a partire dai suoi reportage sull'Aids. Nel 1993 Padilla stava documentando le storie dei tossicodipendenti affetti da questa malattia che vivevano nei Single Room Occupancy hotel (strutture dove spesso vivono indigenti o ex senzatetto) di San Francisco. È lì che ha incontrato Julie Baird, una neo madre di 19 anni che aveva appena scoperto di avere l'Aids. Padilla ha fotografato Julie e la sua famiglia per i successivi 21 anni. Julie è poi morta a causa della sua malattia, in un luogo sperduto in mezzo alla natura in Alaska. Lo scopo del progetto è stato e continua ad essere quello di analizzare le tematiche sociali in relazione alla tossicodipendenza, la povertà, la previdenza sociale e gli abusi sessuali, attraverso la vita di una persona.
The Night Porter... As U Like IT
Considered The Most Controversial Picture Of Our Time!
Set in 1957 Vienna, Liliana Cavani's film, The Night Porter is a disturbing, mesmerizing drama that viewers seem either to love or loathe. To be sure, this is not a film for everyone. Its subject matter is dark and difficult. The fascinating, if twisted, story is about the revival of an intense relationship that had started in a Nazi concentration camp – between Max, an SS officer and Lucia, one of the inmates.
Max is now, in 1957, a night porter in a hotel – the hotel that Lucia happens to visit with her. But when, at the opera, he looks at Lucia, and Lucia cannot resist turning her head to meet his gaze (and at a point in the opera where the words being sung are about how love sweetens troubles and all creatures sacrifice to love), Max, too, is drawn inexorably.
Despite what some reviewers seem to think, The Night Porter is absolutely not a skin flick, and nor is it a Nazi exploitation flick. It is a film about a relationship. It is about the power of a human connection and a little tenderness in an extreme situation – and about the power of extreme situations to create passion. It is about how intoxicating relationships having an element of control/power can be – and how intoxicating a mixture violence and loving tenderness can be. It is perhaps a warning about the all-consuming and potentially self-destructive power of an intense relationship.
The Night Porter has some very memorable scenes, and the acting of the main characters is superb. The subtlety and complexity of Charlotte Rampling's Lucia is staggering. It could have been played so badly, but Charlotte Rampling had the courage and the insight and the ability to give a breathtakingly brilliant performance, conveying strength as well as vulnerability, peacefulness as well as terror, intense desire as well as numbness, power and control as well as submission, lightness as well as darkness, heaven as well as hell.
Liliana Cavani has an eye for psychologically difficult and tension-increasing juxtapositions. In one scene, we hear Mozart's pure and heavenly music about the higher purpose of love and man and wife, while a concentration camp guard buggers a male prisoner, presumably not entirely consensually! In another scene, there is the eroticism of a topless dance together with the ghastly truth that the woman is dancing for the concentration camp guards who hold her and may one day execute her. In another, there is extreme violence mixed with passionate love.
Charlotte Rampling: www.imdb.com/name/nm0001648/
Dirk Bogarde: www.imdb.com/name/nm0001958/
A Short Extract:
au.youtube.com/watch?v=TfSdXK5sMM4
David Gregory-Interviews on The Night Porter with Liliana Cavani:
au.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhG12j9D6g
au.youtube.com/watch?v=L8gW7IDG1DU
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In continuation of the (sort of) tale, Syncretio who seems to have a bit of a "complicated thing" going with Xiamara, goes for a head clearing walk in the park. Where he encounters Alpho, the wolfess, who immediately pounces upon him with an acerbic little homily concerning the wickedness of his ways. (He is the one who is being difficult here. Xia, for once, is totally in the clear!). Not being in a fit state to deal with her by himself (he is kinda drunk), he does what any avatar with half a brain would do under the circumstances: He logs in his alt! hhh (Who incidentally, is played by me.).
Meanwhile Grapho, Amina and Syncretia are off in the distance, having nice little constitutionals and reunions and break-ups and heartaches and what not...
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A shot of a water bottle reflecting flickr from my pc monitor.
An idea probably subconciously inspired by Jane In Colours excellent work on Cross Polarisation (set) (please check it out if you haven't already!) .
I have also experimented with light through plastic water bottles (with water in them) in one of my earlier (Flickr infancy) shot CD Water Drops #2.
A cousin shot to abstract #8
Part of my bottles (Set)
© Jon Downs 2010 All Rights Reserved.
Monday morning wake up knowing that youve got to go to school
Tell your mum what to expect, she says its right out of the blue
Do you went to work in debenhams, because thats what they expect
Start in lingerie, and doris is your supervisor
And the head said that you always were a queer one from the start
For careers you say you went to be remembered for your art
Your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strange
Making life-size models of the velvet underground in clay
In the queue for lunch they take the piss, youve got no appetite
And the rumour is you never go with boys and you are tight
So they jab you with a fork, you drop the tray and go berserk
While your cleaning up the mess the teachers looking up your skirt
Youve been used, youre confused
Write a song, Ill sing along
Are you calm? settle down
Soon you will know that you are sane
Youre on top of the world again
Monday morning wake up knowing that youve got to go to school
Mum said she had little choice when she was young, so why should you?
Do you went to work in c&a, cause thats what they expect
Move to ladieswear and take a feel off joe the storeman
Tell veronica the secrets of the boy you never kissed
Shes got everything to gain cause shes a fat girl with a lisp
She sticks up for you when you get aggravation from the snobs
cause you cant afford a blazer and youre always wearing clogs
At the interval you lock yourself away inside a room
Heed of english gets you, asks you, what the hell do you think youre doing?
Do you think youre better then the other kids? well get outside.
Youve got permission, but youve got to make the bastard think hes right
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I got out of school early today to go to an orthodontist appointment to make a date to get my braces off!
I'm getting them off in 6 weeks :]
Very exciting. Which means theyll be off by HALLOWEEN! :D
I just have to wear 6 rubber bands for 6 weeks straight :p
Whatever, its worth it :]
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Well it looks like I will be moving out of the Bay Area and it's looking more and more likely I will be returning to the foothills near Yosemite. We are excited about it but man I hate moving so I decided to bum this one back up on my photostream. This is one of my first and still most popular shots. Can't wait to be back in the woods.
If you have chosen to enter Yosemite from the south entrance along Highway 41 you will first get a few fleeting glimpses around the bends of the Valley that will cause you to wonder if what you just saw was real. It seems too big, too distant. Surely your eyes are just playing tricks on you. The trees will quickly obscure your view and you will drive along directly into the face of the mountains via Yosemite's longest tunnel. Because it's such a long tunnel and you may begin to relax but grip the wheel tight as you approach the exit for the view you are about to see will wrench your eyes from the road in disbelief!
There is good reason for the flashing yellow light warning you to slow. Suddenly before you lies an impossibly massive scene of snow topped granite towers, soaring waterfalls and pristine forests. Possibly the most photographed icon of nature lies before you an impossible view simply called Inspiration Point though some refer to it as the tunnel view. A "U" shaped glacier valley lies a thousand feet below you. To the left of the image, the impressive, largest single piece of exposed granite called El Capitan is the most dominate object in Yosemite Valley. Early explorers, unable to believe their eyes, estimated the rock at only 900ft above the valley floor. They simply could not fathom it's real height. Modern measurements eventually put it well over three times that height at nearly 3000 feet above Yosemite Valley. To the right, a towering waterfall whipped by the blowing winds in the narrow canyon appropriately named Bridal Veil Falls. While not the tallest, it is definitely one of the more beautiful waterfalls in Yosemite. In the far distance, another seemingly impossible large chunk of granite cut in half by the glaciers appropriately named Half Dome rises above the valley. But it's not over yet, you have only begun the start of a dream like drive that will take you all the way up the valley past numerous waterfalls, the meandering Merced River and lead you to Yosemite Falls which will makes Bridal Veil Falls look like a tiny trickle of water. If you are a photographer, you could easily spend your day at the entrance as the scene will change by the minute, especially in winter, but push on, as there is much to see.
Winter and early spring in Yosemite are a quiet time and possibly the best for photography if you don't mind driving on cliff walls in the snow. The summer crowds have yet to arrive. The campgrounds are empty and except for a few cars driving though the valley the roads are clear. And though you may stick to the outhouse seats there are few drawbacks to visiting during this time of year provided you bring the proper gear for you and your car. If you can, plan your visits to coincide with the breaking of a winter storm. Yosemite staff are good at keeping the roads open and you have a good chance of getting the proper conditions for some stunning photography as the clouds break. I spent 5 years of my life living just outside the park. My only regret is that digital photography was only in its infancy at the time.
Darv
© Darvin Atkeson
Ahora en Biodiversidad virtual y hace poco en El País -en pdf- gracias a Elisabet Sans. También en la web de la Fundación Biodiversidad
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Closterium toxon es como todas las algas de este género un alga de sonrisa, cada una lleva su gesto, la de hoy no tan abierta como la de Closterium lunula ni tan fina como la Closterium acutum, pero a fin de cuentas también sonrisa.
Closterium toxon es de figura esbelta y tiene contorno de arco como su hermana Closterium dianae, pero es de trazos más rectos y angulosos que ella. Se trata de un désmido que, aunque muy frecuente en las aguas de la Laguna de Peñalara no parece estar presente en otras localidades de montaña del interior de la Península.
A lo largo de su interior, perfectamente orientados en línea se disponen de 12 a 14 pirenoides, que como en todos los désmidos, almacenan sustancias de reserva y rematan sus extremos dos pequeñas vacuolas cargadas de cristalitos con sales de calcio hacen de balancín, para que el alga se mantenga flotando en equilibrio y la sonrisa no se tuerza.
En esta ocasión Closterium ha venido acompañando a otras algas hermanas, estrellas acuáticas como Euastrum y Micrasterias con las muestras recogidas en unas praderas inundadas de las inmediaciones de la Laguna de Peñalara y como todos los seres encontrados en ellas va dedicada a todos estos amigos con quienes tuve la suerte de compartir este maravilloso proyecto de Biodiversidad virtual. La fotografía se ha tomado a 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste de interferencia.
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☁ la nube negra de una justicia pervertida en nuestro país, movida por la envidia y la venganza, permanecerá aquí, hasta que soplen los vientos limpios que todos necesitamos. La Justicia es uno de los cimientos necesarios para la Paz. Desde aquí todo nuestro apoyo al Juez Baltasar Garzón -el buen Juez de Saramago- y a las personas de buena voluntad como él que trabajan por la Justicia.
From my uploads in 2022
Made with bighugelabs.com/mosaic.php
1. Trees in fog
3. Gone fishing
8. Power
9. Cry
10. Wonder
11. Force of nature
12. My grass
13. Cat
14. Bands
15. Woof and λειχήν