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Hello my amazing Flickr friends !
Today is a blue day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Looking Close on Friday is : pencil points ! Yes, there is an exclamation point since this theme deserve it ! I love pencils and I love pencils points !
While searching for the perfect pencil points, I stumbled upon this red flying pencil, trying to kiss his old grey lover… So I grabbed my camera and took a picture just before the whole scene disappeared and the red pencil flied away in a blink of an eye…The moral of this story is dont blink or you might miss something! And other moral; dont drink alcohol while taking pictures or you might see some stuff that doesn’t make sense…
I wish you all a beautiful day !! See you later my friends !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!! And see you soon on Flickr !!
The so called simple subjects seem to be the hardest ones for me. These pencils behaved like divas. I'm learning a lot, I hope.
Amazing light and clouds for this morning shot taken from a BC Ferry on route from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen.
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…dass wir mittendrin sind im Klimawandel, merken wir am Wetter, das immer extremer wird. Noch vollzieht sich die Veränderung schleichend und ist verkraftbar für uns. Doch dann können plötzlich Kipppunkte auftreten.
Ein einziger Kipppunkt kann eine ganze Kettenreaktion auslösen – ähnlich wie bei Dominosteinen. Wird einer von ihnen gekippt, schiebt dieses Element die Erde auf einen weiteren Kipppunkt zu…
"Navareum"
...that we are in the midst of climate change, we notice from the weather, which is becoming more and more extreme. The conversion is still taking place gradually and is manageable for us. But then tipping points can suddenly appear.
A single tipping point can set off an entire chain reaction - similar to dominoes. If one of them is tilted, this element pushes the earth towards another tipping point...
"Navareum"
This was a shot I had been longing to do when I was last down in Schierke, this is a stone's throw away from the apartment I was staying in. Unexpectedly it was a very unseasonably cold evening and I spent the majority of the LE pacing up and down. It was also a very clear night so that said I was happy for no heat distortion and the stars in all their glory could be seen perfectly.
LE star shots can be tricky in exposed areas, luckily there were a few street lamps and so I aimed for the furthest one to get an auto focus, then switched the lens back to manual before setting off the shutter, which in this case was for 20 minutes or there about.
If stuck for focus points in the dark, either use a powerful laser pointer, a torch which can be adjusted to a narrow band which you can aim at a tree or a relatively far away object or even better still, set up the camera to point in a general direction, take a run with the torch, switch it on and leave it on the ground, head back and get your focus aiming at the torch. Switch back to manual and you will have good sharp focus for your image.
If all above fails, use the LV display and zoom in on something light, manually then focus until the light source is smallest on the screen, that should just about do it but it's sometimes pure guess work. I've seen so many potentially great night time shots wrecked because of bad focus, there's quite a few little cheats to by this problem.
We're off from Monday, I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)
Dún Aonghasa (Unofficial anglicised version Dun Aengus) is the best-known of several prehistoric hill forts on the Aran Islands of County Galway, Republic of Ireland. It lies on Inis Mór, at the edge of a 100-metre-high (330 ft) cliff.
A popular tourist attraction, Dún Aonghasa is an important archaeological site.
History
It is not known exactly when Dún Aonghasa was built, though it is now thought that most of the structures date from the Bronze Age and Iron Age. T. F. O'Rahilly surmised in what is known as O'Rahilly's historical model that it was built in the 2nd century BC by the Builg following the Laginian conquest of Connacht.Excavations at the site indicate that the first construction goes back to 1100 BC, when rubble was piled against large upright stones to form the first enclosure. Around 500 BC, the triple wall defenses were probably constructed along the fort's western side.
The 19th-century artist George Petrie called "Dún Aonghasa" "the most magnificent barbaric monument in Europe". Its name, meaning "Fort of Aonghas", may refer to the pre-Christian god of the same name described in Irish mythology, or the mythical king, Aonghus mac Úmhór. It has thus traditionally been associated with the Fir Bolg.
Form and function
The fort consists of a series of four concentric walls of dry stone construction, built on a high cliff some one hundred metres above the sea. At the time of its construction sea levels were considerably lower and a recent Radio Telefis Eireann documentary estimates that originally it was 1000 metres from the sea. Surviving stonework is four metres wide at some points. The original shape was presumably oval or D-shaped but parts of the cliff and fort have since collapsed into the sea. Outside the third ring of walls lies a defensive system of stone slabs, known as a cheval de frise, planted in an upright position in the ground and still largely well-preserved. These ruins also feature a huge rectangular stone slab, the function of which is unknown. Impressively large among prehistoric ruins, the outermost wall of Dún Aonghasa encloses an area of approximately 6 hectares (14 acres).
Today
The walls of Dún Aonghasa have been rebuilt to a height of 6m and have wall walks, chambers, and flights of stairs. The restoration is easily distinguished from the original construction by the use of mortar.[citation needed]
There is a small museum illustrating the history of the fort and its possible functions. Also in the vicinity is a Neolithic tomb and a small heritage park featuring examples of a traditional thatched cottage and an illegal poteen distillery.
The Topham Suspension bridge over the North Saskatchewan River near Saskatchewan River Crossing. Alberta Canada leads to the Siffleur Falls Hike. Siffleur Falls Trail is a moderately-easy hike through flat grassland and forest. It is a family friendly path that offers beautiful view-points equipped with guard rails. The Rocky Mountains look so beautiful in the background.
At 10,700 feet elevation the early morning temperature was 41 degrees (f). There were 15 bull elk grazing in a nice open setting.
This group lined up nicely as they went about the business of bulking up for the coming rut and following winter. A pretty good way to spend a July morning for this photographer.
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado!
La seule façon d'identifier avec certitude ce moucherolle c'est par son chant. L'oiseau étant en tous points identique au Moucherolle des aulnes.
The only way to identify with certainty this flycatcher is by his singing. The bird is in all respects identical to the Alder Flycatcher.
“L’enfance est un point de repère à partir duquel chacun va se déterminer.”
Manuel Poirier
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Glencoe in winter one of the spectacular view points to be discovered on a tour of the West coast of Scotland.
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Points of Light looking like a strange galaxy, this is just a very heavy frost with reflections on the ice, shot in North Carolina.
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Thema:“Pencil Points“ am 09.04.2021.
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Distant glows from Wisconsin and Milky Way light the sky beyond a forest of dune relics along Lake Michigan
I came across this scene today. It fascinated me, but I did not know why. I still don't. It is Spring, and the lost glove points back to Winter. I guess, the scene is talking to me, about expectations and about loss. A lost Spring.
One of the entry points to Cockle Bay.
On the western, Novotel Hotel, side of Darling Harbour.
This image was taken from beneath the Pyrmont Bridge, a heritage swing bridge, first opened in 1857.
This walkway is located right near the Sydney Maritime Museum, and the HMAS Vampire II Destroyer. See
www.sea.museum/en/whats-on/our-fleet/hmas-vampire
Straight ahead and across the water is the ubiquitous W Hotel. See
www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/sydwh-w-sydney/overview/
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f4L IS USM lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom.