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Taken last Remembrance Sunday at the American Cemetery at Madingley.
I'd intended on posting these last week but ran out of time to process them. If I don't use them now, they will just languish on the hard-drive!
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Sorry I haven't been posting...I had a major block and decided to take the week off and recharge myself. Yes, my 365 is about 10 days off schedule now, but I'm okay with it. I feel like as long as I get it finished within a month of when I was supposed to, I have succeeded. The last time I did a 365 I put too much pressure on myself and I'm trying not to do that again. :)
Well guys, we made it through another year. This year has really beat me up, but I have faith that the next 365 days will be much better. I am slowly getting better and I have a supportive family and loving friends by my side to see me through. Can't believe that I will be 18 this coming year either. Time is flying!
I wish you all a happy new year, and many more<3 Thank you all so much for supporting me, it means so much. By the way, this is my 7th year on Flickr. Can't believe it's been that long!!
And one more thing...I processed this on my laptop...the colors are really off :/
My emotional avatar right there.
For many years I’ve been struggling with my former time at school. The coercion, peer pressure, loneliness, the tribal culture and seeming chaos of random acts of cruelty and humiliation perpetrated by my peers deeply affected me. Add to that the bullying that was directed upon anyone observed to be either too smart or too dumb. So I ran silent and deep, tried to become invisible, did the minimum effort to receive a pass in my assignments, in constant fear of being cast out, rejected and mocked. After finishing school I felt cheated; I’d lost my chance at a career or even becoming who I might’ve been. I felt like a shadow. I felt like a failure. The bullies had won. I felt bitter and angry; I would resort to road rage to vent my aggression. In my mind I would become obsessed with questions like “Why” and “If only-“, I was trapped in my own past.
Through much counselling, reading and introspection, I had an epiphany recently. I realised that I’d survived. It sounds a so simple and a little quaint but I suspect that I had to be in the right place in order to realise the power of that statement. I was traumatised by school but I survived. Unfortunately many kids don’t. But I did, here I am. Suddenly the questions in my mind turned to “Now what?” and “What happens today?” Saying to myself that I survived something in the past gave me not only strength but focused me back on the present, the here and now. This moment here becomes important rather than trying to fix or resolve or find meaning in the past. That's a hugely powerful feeling for me and I’m proud of myself for surviving something I found so traumatic.
I don't know why it took me so long to get here but that's in the past now too. I don't know if this helps anyone reading it but if there's even the remotest, slightest possibility that it might, then it's worth sharing. Sharing our vulnerabilities makes us stronger, I think.
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Update: I'm re-posting this as it's been used on a few recent blogs and kind people are coming past to see it, way back in the order of things. It also brings a bit of colour to the front of my photostream, amidst a lot of recent black and whites. I just noticed that this was possible, so thought I would have a test run to see how it was done. Hope that doesn't offend anyone!
Broadgate Circus is a private office estate in The City of London, adjacent to Liverpool Street station. Resolved to take some photos despite the rain, I found a sheltered corner of Broadgate with a good view of City commuters hurrying home from their offices in the grey London weather. The wet granite gave a nice dark mirror, with the turquoise glass of Gaucho and glowing gold of other office lights a not entirely uninteresting backdrop to the scene. The airvents here provide a workable improvised tripod too.
I managed to get around 25-30 shots away before private security arrived on the scene to impose their intolerance upon me, and I was ejected with stern authority, and a hand on my shoulder, though with memory cards unmolested. For people taking photos at Broadgate Circus in future, it would be worth noting. The guards were professional, but clearly bored and thus more intimidating than they need have been.
With the first half of the images no more than sighting shots of limited use, only this one stood out from those remaining, but I'm very happy with it. There's a nice symmetry, I think, especially between the red umbrella, blurred to an arrow pointing sharply down to the flowers. This one was cropped to centre the lady; more at home as a focal point than drifting on the top/right third point as she was.
It has been a grey day with some bad news and thick rain, so it's nice to share a colourful, meditative image at the end of it. Hope people approve. Thanks for all the nice comments so far.
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I am posting two different versions of the same photo this evening with the second photo being a bit of a crop to show where I launch my canoe. I took the photo merely to show the colors in the sky in the north as there were some subtle color to be seen in the sky. I never intended to use it for any other purpose, but will try to add a bit more about the bayou system while I am on the subject.
A bit of an explanation will point you in another direction and allow you explore Armand Bayou which extends north from this point and snakes its way along for rough 4.75 miles. That doesn’t sound like a great distance but it does take some to paddle up in that direction and explore all of the nooks and crannies of Armand Bayou. If you stop and take photos like I do, you could easily spend an entire day along that stretch of the bayou. You can launch the canoe or kayak and paddle under the bridge and be on your way to explore another waterway. Just stay to the left where the bayou splits you’ll enjoy the trip a lot more.
The white structure that you see just to the right of center in the crop is a floating dock that I use to launch my canoe. Most people slide their canoes into the water on the boat ramp that you see in the far right of the scene. It adds a lot of scratches to the underside of the canoe, and so I never use it. A bit harder to launch from the floating dock, but my canoe is much happier when I treat it nicely. My last canoe lasted 33 years and is still in good working order still useable.
I’ll stop blabbering away an be on my way. It’s a nice place to enjoy with endless possibilities.
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On an earlier posting I made the comment that all my previous compact cams managed really close macros better that this Oly.
I've experimented with a variety of closeup lenses and they produced acceptable results but, I wanted an even 'better' solution.
Enter the Raynox M-250 - for all intense and purpose a +8 dioptre lens (3 elements coated) built to higher spec and an ingenious 'universal' mounting solution which means that it can be used on any lens (including the Lensbaby) with 52-67mm filter size regardless of the cam.
However, it is limited to focal lengths higher than 50mm equivalent with longer telephotos giving the highest magnification. The downside is - as illustrated - that the depth of field is ridiculously small a matter of millimetres even at f/20.
Time will tell if it was a practical solutions.
(Late posting - our internet was down.) Our oriental tiger lilies have been budding for two months - but they wait until the week of the 4th to open. We've got 5 or 6 big flowers out there today.
Have a great holiday!!
Winner (sweep), Pre-game, No medals, 7-14
Winner, Game, Pre-game winners, 7-14
Winner, You Rock, Single flower, 1-15
Winner (Unanimous), You Rock, Upgrade, 2-15
Winner, Pre-game, Sweep duel, 3-15
After posting quite a few cold, snowy images recently, I feel desperately in need of seeing bright colour for a change. These five photos were taken on 8 September 2015.
Our brutal cold weather continues. The temperature at 10:00 pm on 21 December 2022 is -29°C (FEELS LIKE -41°C). The good news is that today, the days finally start getting longer. Daylight gets 2 minutes 7 seconds longer each day from now on.
"This photo was taken on 8 September 2015. In the morning, I joined a group of friends for a three-hour stroll at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. 38 bird species were seen, though I didn't manage to see any of the tiny, fast-moving Warblers. It was good to see 28 Wood Ducks, but they were far, far away, in an area that is still closed due to devastating flood damage. The Sanctuary had been closed for about two years for this reason and only very recently re-opened just a part of the area.
The Calgary Zoo is very close to the Sanctuary, so after our morning walk, I decided to call in at the Zoo. I hadn't been for about a year and I really missed going there. Of course, many of the garden flowers were past their prime, but I did find a few that were fit to photograph.
I knew I wouldn't be able to walk far, having already been walking all morning, but I really wanted to get to the ENMAX Conservatory to see what was going on. I had been longing all summer to see the tropical butterflies and plants. The butterfly season will be coming to an end for these tropical beauties, but there were still plenty of them to be seen. Also, this month, the parking lot that I use will close for the winter and I don't like the drive back home from the north parking area, using Deerfoot Trail, so tend not to go to the Zoo all winter.
There was so much activity going on at the Zoo the other day. People everywhere, carrying large animals wrapped in white, protective coverings, preparing for the upcoming ILLUMINASIA, Lantern & Garden Festival. Each animal is an individual lantern and there are so many of them. I noticed that several of the real animals in their enclosures were watching all the unaccustomed activity, which made me smile.
A good day, despite the overcast sky, and plenty of photo opportunities. Recently, I have been finding far fewer things to photograph, with fall on its way, so a day like this was more than welcome."
On my 200th day after first posting a Flickr foto, I bequeath this Envy Eradication Plan.
How do you handle it when others are “almost always first in” competition with life’s daily races with you. In such a situation, since the jealous person often feels powerless to compete and unable to raise herself up, she tears the other person down.
Envy does not work its evil out in the open. It works behind the scenes under the guise of good. It engages in covert operations. We read in Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”, Book 2, chapter 4, pg. 89 (New York Penguin Books, 2000), “[The] man shows you what you have fallen away from and what you might have been,” says Sydney Carton to himself, as he reflects upon the reason why he so loathes Charles Darnay.
Do you hate the envied person because she makes you feel inferior or guilty or ashamed of yourself? Is not the other person like a mirror in which you see a portrait of what you are not? Do you make people who you envy pay a thousand ways for their giftedness? Do you make them the brunt of jokes and talk behind their backs? Do you give them the silent treatment and “forget” to tell them information that they need to know in order for them to perform their jobs well?” Do you attempt to destroy their good names by sowing seeds of suspicion about them in the minds of your colleagues and friends?
Envy (the Latin invidia, from vedere, to see) has traditionally been associated with the eyes. Envy is the inability to look upon the goods of others with joy. Envy drains one’s life of joy and fills it with fear. St. Thomas defined envy as “sorrow for another’s goods.” But it is a projected sorrow, the sorrow that I do not have what others have. And it is a sorrow that is shot through with fear, the fear that I am less than others.
The envious person is competitive by nature; he is always comparing himself to others, forever looking out of the corner of his eye to see if his neighbor has more, or something bigger or better. The tragedy of the envious person is like that of a child who cannot rejoice in the Christmas present that he is unwrapping because he is spying the gifts that his siblings have received.
If you also have this problem, will you join with me on an elimination plan? Can each of us rid ourselves of envy, by attacking it a little bit at a time? Without always envying others, there is a better ability to find peace and joy in daily life. Guaranteed your inner being will smile more!
EXPLORE # 189 on initial group on February 13, 2008; # 231 & 248 on 02-14-2008.
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It's interesting if one has been posting to Flickr for awhile, to go back to one's first page in the photo stream and work one's way forward in time.
The photos one had thought pretty good once upon a time might now be thought rubbish. Actually quite a lot of those.
Some might now be thought to have potential that a decade on in experience lends a different perspective.
This one had been posted ten years ago and after seeing it, eventually found on an old hard drive.
The Canon 40D used was only 4 months old yet there were still sensor dust spots that needed cloning. Its sensor's dynamic range is not as good as that in my Fuji cameras which are now 7 and 4 years old. I was also reminded that at that time, I still hadn't been shooting in RAW. The original was a JPEG as my Ps app couldn't yet "see" the 40D's version of camera raw.
The original is in the first comment box below. If it doesn't show, click on your browser's refresh button.
I hadn't the Lightroom app when this photo was made and it certainly made a big difference being able to push the shadows slider all the way to the right and then the black slider some also.
This is one of those images that should have been made with a gradient neutral density filter, but thankfully software now is good enough to squeak by.
The vibrance and saturations sliders were pulled a bit left to reduce both. Knowing that eventually colour would be boosted in Ps LAB, it's better to start off a bit more bland.
There is a Detail panel in the Lr Develop module in which one can mask the sharpening to edges with a slider pushed to the right. This keeps artifacts from appearing in the sky. That same panel can reduce luminance and colour noise. This image shot with the 40D needed that, especially where the shadows had been brightened.
The image was then opened in Ps, the background copied and turned into a smart layer. Double clicking on the smart layer opens the image as a separate PSB image. When that image is closed and saved, all the edits are then brought back to the original Ps PSD image's smart layer. It's like having stacked images within images. It allows me to convert that PSB image from RGB mode to LAB mode. After lots of sliding and masking for increasing contrast between hues, it was brought back to the smart layer. I won't bore you with all the details. There are some good youtube videos that go over the basics. Nothing beats Photoshop LAB Color, the Canyon Conundrum by Dan Margulis if one wants to really learn about Ps LAB editing. I now do almost all my editing in LAB beginning with increasing contrast of hue, then edge sharpening confined to edges in the Lightness channel which avoids influencing hues. Finally, luminosity contrast might be enhanced and constrained using the concepts taught by Tony Kuyper regarding luminosity masking.
And that's about it.
This isn't one of those images that seems extreme, but the amount of sliding to get it here was extremely extensive.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
I'm posting a number of photos here. Some have been published and seen before, others have not. They are for possible contribution to a global photo book project. There will be several new postings a day over the next few days.
okay sorry guys for posting so many portraits but i just cant stop :P
and this is just a fun shot from yesterdays shoot i had to take it with my dads canon,oh i cannot take pictures with these cams :D
this is also sooc :]
(Plinthocoelium suaveolens). Brazoria County, Texas.
It seems like I'm always posting something that "I've wanted to see since I was a kid". That's because, presumably like most of my lifelong naturalist friends, I spent much of my childhood pouring through field guides and natural history books, and dreaming of one day finding the beautiful and fascinating organisms contained within. In that respect, my bucket list grew very, very long.
Followers of my Flickr stream also have likely noticed that I love beetles. My passion for these armored insects began in earnest in 7th grade, when my first life sciences teacher, Mrs. Powell tasked us with putting together an insect collection. I already had a strong passion for nature and science thanks to my parents, but Mrs. Powell's assignment opened up the exciting world of insect hunting and collecting to me. I have continued to collect on and off throughout the years, though today I very rarely take specimens, preferring to record encounters with my camera.
After 7th grade, we moved from Chicago to Texas, and I was exposed to a whole new world of entomological wonders. I bought field guides on Texas insects, and immediately started marking the species I wanted to see. With the help of my parents, I targeted some of these. One year my mom took my brother, a friend, and I on a trip toward College Station to find my first Ironclad Beetle, which I did, along with my first Wheel Bug, IO Moth, and a Striped Bark Scorpion.
Over the years my passion for insects waxed and waned, as it competed with other budding interests like birds and plants. Yet I always kept a soft spot for beetles.
One species that I immediately noticed in my Texas Field Guides was the Bumelia Borer, a spectacular long-horned beetle that is, in my opinion, a serious contender for the most beautiful beetle in the country. Though this species would likely be relatively easy to find due to its host specificity and propensity to visit bait traps, I had never made the effort. I had found a few bits of elytra and exoskeleton remains on a few occasions in central Texas, but had yet to see a live individual.
This all changed last weekend, when I visited the Nature Conservancy's Nash Prairie Preserve. Here I found an absolute bounty of pollinators visiting the sea of blooming Rattlesnake Master in this exceptionally high quality coastal prairie remnant. I photographed Trigonopeltastes delta, a beautiful flower scarab, and watched Carolina Mantis nymphs as they sat in ambush on the Rattlesnake Master's flower heads.
Then I saw a massive flying insect, which appeared iridescent bluish black with an orange abdomen, and I initially took to be some manner of spider wasp. When it landed, however, I instantly recognized it as the species I have so long wanted to see.
I followed this spectacular beetle around the prairie for over an hour. It was uninterested in my presence, and allowed for a very close approach as it moved from flower to flower feeding. This species comes in a variety of color morphs, and I was lucky to see one with elements of turquoise and cobalt blue. For me, it's beauty ranks right up there with the spectacular jewel beetles of the genus Chrysina found in West Texas.
Observing this beetle was one of those magical experiences that happened when I least expected it, and it was made all the more special by the incredible setting of the Nash Prairie - a testament to the importance of this place and the conservation work of the Nature Conservancy and other organizations like it.
Posting a pic for the sake of... posting? lol
I finally made her a new outfit, she's spent too much time in the dress she came with. Wee! playful clothes for a playful girl ♥ I still got to get her new eyes and wig... actually I need new eyes and wigs for everyone here... ;__;''
Thanks for stopping by! :D
Posting photos scanned from Kodacolor prints shot at Air/Space America 88 San Diego’s Brown Field in May 1988 on a misty morning. As you can see print process, camera, lens and scanner were not of the quality in 1988 as the digital equipment is today.
I'm posting early (again) today, as I am taking my camera with me when I go for my afternoon volunteer shift. I'm really hoping that the very strong winds will have died down by late afternoon, so that I can go and look for Prairie Crocuses (which I have still not seen yet this year). Would be nice if the grey sky could brighten up, too : )
Took this photo of a water droplet on a petal, back in mid-March. It always amazes me how the drops retain their perfect roundness with nothing to support them from below.
This WSOR bridge over the Yahara River is one of the few visible remnants in Madison of the former double-tracked CNW mainline between Chicago and the Twin Cities.
Wisconsin & Southern Railroad
Reedsburg Subdivision
Madison Wisconsin
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This is an old game from the archives, but I'm posting it here as it hasn't been on Flickr or You Tube before (you can watch the video here: youtu.be/3zW98Hw0nuk), it was an interesting game, and the picture quality isn't great so, if there's some interest, it may the subject of a rerun.
Very briefly, it was a lockout from the car with the key attached to, let's just say, an article of clothing, which was then left to see if anyone noticed it or picked it up, which would have left me a much longer walk to my backup key
My thanks to Mark Emirali for posting his fantastic shot first- this is just my interpretation of the scene.
Mark's can be seen here…. www.flickr.com/photos/maloe4/4881256823/
This room really is a cellar or food storage room and is part of Fountains Abey, near Rippon in the UK - it was begun in 1132 and completed in 1203 and then added to over the next 2 hundred years.
5 Shot HDR Nikon FX 20mm F2.8
The shot was taken close to the floor (I wanted the gritty texture here) so there was plenty of distortion in the pillars - removed via CS3 lens distrotion filter.
I've decided to start posting Figbarfs for my current Superboy and Supergirl series, starting from the very beginning. Assassin, Stinger, Psycho Pirate (Halstead), Blanque, and Wrath.
Alias: Assassin
Real Name: Johnathan Drew
Powers: None
Backstory: As the pod containing the twins fell to Earth, a piece of shrapnel from the pod separated, and ended up killing Johnathan's wife. His mind snapped, as he promised he would find the killers, and he did. The latest victim of his to draw them out was Vivian Lancaster. After a brief fight with the Kryptonians, he was put away.
Alias: Stinger
Powers: None
Backstory: The original Stinger worked for Halstead, and killed Eliza Danvers, but was unable to kill the Kryptonian siblings as they were too powerful. His failure lead to his death, at the hands of a prison guard. Since then, a new Stinger has taken the mantle. The brother of the original Stinger, that kills the STING organization, who were essentially a bunch of crazed fanboys wanting the name to live on. His current location is unknown.
Alias: Psycho Pirate
Real Name: Charles Halstead
Powers: Emotion Control
Story: Not much is known about Halstead's past, besides the fact he was born with his abilities. Manipulating both Assassin and Stinger to do his dirty work. Unfortunately, they both fail, which leads him to trying to do things himself. He lives for the chaos in things, and intensifies Superboy's anger into trying to kill him, which leads to a super brawl between Superboy and Supergirl. He's currently being held at the Scabbard.
Alias: Blanque
Real Name: Stephen Montcroix
Powers: Super Speed/Strength/Reflexes/Pretty much all the generic powers a vampire tends to have
Story: Former soldier that was returning home to his family estate in France. The rest of his comrades were brutally murdered by a monster. The monster kept Stephen alive, but it was a fate worse than death. Now lurking through the shadows, he encountered Supergirl as he was feeding on an innocent girl. He almost killed her, but she managed to survive due to being flown to the sun by her brother. Blanque's current location is unknown
Alias: Wrath
Real Name: ?
Powers: Darkness/Darkforce Manipulation
Story: A woman obsessed with Charles Halstead, that would do anything for him. Superboy and Supergirl are to blame for his imprisonment, so she decides to make them, along with the city, feel true despair for the despair they caused her. She's currently in the Scabbard, her cell far away from Halstead's, after losing to the Kryptonians.
Posting again some very old photos!
Here is Patty, enjoying the sun :) The necklace has been made by my dear friend Nox and top, skirt and headband by me!
Posting late BUT very proud of my item T-T
Event Open: 21th at 12am slt
Event Closed: 11th at 12 pm slt
♦ 12 colors - change all straps in fatpack
♦ 10 metal colors
♦ modify
♦ material on/off
♦ unrigged/resizer
♦ Rigged soon <3
I debated on posting today, but taking my pictures and making these posts helps me process all that I’m going through. Thank you all for the kindness and support you’ve given to me and my family.
Ricky : “Mom got a call this morning from Grandma’s rehab... Mom figured they were calling because maybe Grandma was heading back to the hospital again.. Instead they told Mom that when they went in at 5am to do Grandma’s dialysis, Grandma had passed away. Two weeks ago all the hospitals and nursing homes here stopped allowing visitors, but today they let us all in to see her and say goodbye. She looked very peaceful. Grandma was a wonderful lady and when the world calms down, we’ll be able to have a memorial to celebrate how loved she was. We miss her already.”
Castlefield, Manchester
If you saw my posting yesterday then you will know why I was in Manchester waiting for the shops to open. Has an hour or two to kill so visited the Castlefield site to shoot a few frame. I noticed the name of the barge moored alongside the viaducts from the Bridgewater Canal tow path where this picture was taken. Did consider titling the image "Emmeline Pankhurst" but it bares no relation to the image or location, but for those of you who have never heard of her, here are a few notes lifted from Wikipedia.
Emmeline Pankhurst (15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928)
was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. In 1999 Time named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating: "she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back." She was widely criticised for her militant tactics, and historians disagree about their effectiveness, but her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women's suffrage in Britain.
Born in Moss Side, Manchester to politically active parents, Pankhurst was introduced at the age of 14 to the women's suffrage movement. On 18 December 1879, she married Richard Pankhurst, a barrister 24 years her senior known for supporting women's right to vote; they had five children over the next ten years. He supported her activities outside the home, and she founded and became involved with the Women's Franchise League, which advocated suffrage for both married and unmarried women. When that organisation broke apart, she tried to join the left-leaning Independent Labour Party through her friendship with socialist Keir Hardie but was initially refused membership by the local branch on account of her sex. While working as a Poor Law Guardian, she was shocked at the harsh conditions she encountered in Manchester's workhouses.
In 1903, five years after her husband died, Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an all-women suffrage advocacy organisation dedicated to "deeds, not words." The group identified as independent from – and often in opposition to – political parties. It became known for physical confrontations: its members smashed windows and assaulted police officers. Pankhurst, her daughters, and other WSPU activists received repeated prison sentences, where they staged hunger strikes to secure better conditions. As Pankhurst's eldest daughter Christabel took leadership of the WSPU, antagonism between the group and the government grew. Eventually the group adopted arson as a tactic, and more moderate organisations spoke out against the Pankhurst family. In 1913 several prominent individuals left the WSPU, among them Pankhurst's daughters Adela and Sylvia. Emmeline was so furious that she "gave [Adela] a ticket, £20, and a letter of introduction to a suffragette in Australia, and firmly insisted that she emigrate." Adela complied and the family rift was never healed. Sylvia became a socialist.
With the advent of the First World War, Emmeline and Christabel called an immediate halt to militant suffrage activism in support of the British government's stand against the "German Peril." They urged women to aid industrial production and encouraged young men to fight, becoming prominent figures in the white feather movement. In 1918 the Representation of the People Act granted votes to all men over the age of 21 and women over the age of 30. This discrepancy was intended to ensure that men did not become minority voters as a consequence of the huge number of deaths suffered during the First World War. Pankhurst transformed the WSPU machinery into the Women's Party, which was dedicated to promoting women's equality in public life. In her later years, she became concerned with what she perceived as the menace posed by Bolshevism and joined the Conservative Party and was selected as a Conservative Party candidate for Stepney in 1927. She died on 14 June 1928, only weeks before the Conservative government's Representation of the People Act (1928) extended the vote to all women over 21 years of age on 2 July 1928. She was commemorated two years later with a statue in London's Victoria Tower Gardens.
A female Snowy posing in rural Ottawa.
My shot of the day with a Nikon D7200 and a Nikon 200-500 f5.6 lens. Shot in manual mode 1/800th sec, f5.6, ISO 400.
Shot using a monopod.
I have been posting a few photos recently from our drive down Beaudesert, Rathdowney way in SE Queensland. This farm was across the road from Dingo Head whose dilapidated front gate was shown a fortnight or so ago. Fairly typical of places in the area, it’s more a grazing property I believe than a place with any agriculture. In addition, you can see the usual pile of bits and pieces dumped in the distance, lots of old scrap steel like cars and equipment, cattle and horse yards and some fine logs in the foreground, perhaps they may end up as firewood, it’s cold down thar...or maybe some home made parts for post and rail fences. Who knows.
One thing is for sure, it was a lot tidier than Dingo Head behind me!
I'm posting another sunset shot from my holidays in honour of my Uncle Dan. The sun has set for the last time for him, as he lost his 3 year very upbeat and positive battle with Cancer last week, at the age of only 50.
Dan, we miss you and will love you always xxx
Explored on 6th Oct 2014, position 364.
Explored again on 24th Apr 2025 for April's Takeover: the Four Elements, highest position 256. Another of my shots got chosen My hearts on fire [Explored], position 223.
Everyone is posting their frost shots from Feb. 4, so here's mine. Northstar 1931 is heading west through the first in Coon Rapids
I hesitated quite a lot before posting this one. On the one hand I like the leading lines, and “broken” reflections, on the “Square Meeting” building (including an original view of the very “touristic” clock from the “Mont des Arts”). But on the other hand there might be too much to read in this picture. Your thoughts will be appreciated !
J’ai longuement hésité avant de poster cette photo. D’un côté j’aime les lignes, et les reflets « brisés », sur le bâtiment « Square » (entre autres une vue originale de l’horloge très touristique du Mont des Arts). Mais d’un autre côté elle est peut-être surchargée… Vos avis m’intéressent !
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