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"I think, therefore I am" was the first principle of the French philosopher René Descartes.
Location: Cap Blanc nez, France. Enlarge the photo and you see the white cliffs of Dover at the horizon.
Lately I've been experimenting with the text-to-image AI Midjourney. Apart from the stupid idea of making Midjourney available in a chat forum, which gives an unspeakable interface, working with an imaging AI is frustrating enough as it is. Here, for example, I simply wanted an empty square covered in wet concrete slabs. Instead, Midjourney delivered a hall and a landscape that I didn't order. I intended to put the reflective person on the empty square and mount a beach behind it. Now I had to make a shadow instead of the reflection and could only contribute the sky (without the sea).
We photographers do not accept AI-generated images as a matter of principle. We believe they are not made by us, the way we make a photograph. We have merely commissioned an image made by an AI, just as we commission a painting from a painter. But is it different with a photograph? There, too, we have ultimately commissioned the generation of the image from a machine called a camera. Modern cameras are high-tech and already use AI-based software. I am torn whether to completely reject or partially accept AI-generated images.
Hier, je suis resté 4 heures pour assister à cette belle scène de vie animalière que j'affectionne particulièrement car ce sont des oiseaux que j'aime beaucoup observer à distance..!!
Les grèbes se relaient sur le nid et le consolide...
Il y a quatre oeufs ....
Il faudra attendre la naissance des grèbes huppés.....
C'est la première couvée de ces grèbes huppés.
J'espère assister aux naissances.
Le Grèbe huppé niche entre avril et juillet.
À cette époque, les adultes portent une double huppe et des oreillettes brunes encadrant la tête.
Le nid peut reposer sur un fond vaseux mais il est conçu en principe pour affleurer la surface.
Il peut également flotter mais il est alors arrimé à une souche ou à un paquet de végétaux entremêlés.
Les adultes en garnissent la coupe peu profonde de végétaux qui servent à recouvrir les œufs si les adultes s'absentent du nid. La ponte est composée de 3 à 6 œufs blancs qui virent ensuite au brun et deviennent de ce fait plus discrets.
Les adultes couvent en se relayant toutes les quelques heures. L'éclosion intervient au bout de 28 jours.
Les jeunes sont capables de nager aussitôt mais ils restent dépendants de leurs parents plusieurs semaines.
Un grand merci à toutes et tous pour vos visites et vos commentaires qui sont toujours très appréciés.
Source: Oiseaux.net
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Yesterday, I stayed 4 hours to attend this beautiful scene of animal life that I particularly like because they are birds that I really like to observe from a distance..!!
The grebes take turns on the nest and consolidate it...
There are four eggs...
We will have to wait for the birth of the great crested grebes.....
This is the first brood of these great crested grebes.
I hope to attend the births.
The Great Crested Grebe nests between April and July.
At this time, adults wear a double crest and brown ear flaps framing their heads.
The nest can rest on a muddy bottom but it is designed in principle to be flush with the surface.
It can also float but it is then secured to a stump or a bundle of intertwined plants.
The adults fill the shallow cup with plants which are used to cover the eggs if the adults are absent from the nest. The laying is composed of 3 to 6 white eggs which then turn brown and therefore become more discreet.
Adults brood taking turns every few hours. Hatching occurs after 28 days.
The young are able to swim immediately but they remain dependent on their parents for several weeks.
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Hello, pour la première fois, je participe à l'animation du site Listen2Fight. Principe simple : des joutes sympathiques entre des morceaux de musique, en vue de faire connaître des groupes inconnus (ou presque). Je fais une battle entre deux groupes "garage", So Cow et Box Elders. Ca me ferait plaisir que vous votiez et -pourquoi pas?- laissiez un petit message...
Hello, for the first time, I am posting on the site Listen2Fight (in french). The principle is simple : a battle between two unknown tracks from two bands. I choosed garage bands : So Cow and Box Elders. I would be happy if you would participate to this fight and vote! It's not difficult. You might listen one minute of each track. When it's done, appear the mention "encourager" at the bottom of the titles. Click on the "encourager" you prefer. You can also let a little message if you want...
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Message from the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers:
"As you move through these changing times... be easy on yourself and be easy on one another. You are at the beginning of something new. You are learning a new way of being. You will find that you are working less in the yang modes that you are used to.
You will stop working so hard at getting from point A to point B the way you have in the past, but instead, will spend more time experiencing yourself in the whole, and your place in it.
Instead of traveling to a goal out there, you will voyage deeper into yourself. Your mother's grandmother knew how to do this. Your ancestors from long ago knew how to do this. They knew the power of the feminine principle... and because you carry their DNA in your body, this wisdom and this way of being is within you.
Call on it. Call it up. Invite your ancestors in. As the yang based habits and the decaying institutions on our planet begin to crumble, look up. A breeze is stirring. Feel the sun on your wings."
The screw thread is believed to have been invented around 400 BCE, by Archytas of Tarentum, a Greek philosopher sometimes called “the father of mechanics.” The general principle of the screw was applied early on, in cities like Pompeii, to extract olive oil and grape juice. It was further developed the Greek mathematician Archimedes to alter water levels. The water screw, first mentioned in Mechanica of Heron of Alexandria, was made from wood and aided farm irrigation and rid ships of bilge water.
Everything was ok with this photo. I had an idea and I implemented it. I had set up a small candle. Above it (a little raised) laid a newspaper and waited until the flame had fought through the paper. It took me almost a minute to take the picture. The next day I wanted to improve the picture a little and worked on the same principle as the day before. Unfortunately, after one or two seconds, the entire newspaper went up in flames and I had trouble controlling the fire. Thank god I was able to extinguish the fire. I left that with the new picture.
Bei diesem Foto war noch alles ok. Ich hatte eine Idee und die habe ich umgesetzt. Ein kleine Kerze hatte ich aufgestellt. Darüber (etwas erhöht) eine Zeitung gelegt und abgewartet, bis sich die Flamme durch das Papier gekämpft hatte. Das dauerte eine knappe Minute, bis ich das Foto machen konnte. Am nächsten Tag wollte ich das Bild noch eine wenig verbessern und arbeitete nach dem gleichen Prinzip wie am Vortag. Leider ging nach ein- bis zwei Sekunden die komplette Zeitung in Flammen auf und ich hatte Mühe, den Brand unter Kontrolle zu bekommen. Gott sei Dank konnte ich das Feuer löschen. Das mit dem neuen Bild habe ich dann bleiben lassen.
How can it be permissible
She compromise my principle, yeah yeah
That kind of love is mythical
She's anything but typical
She's a craze you'd endorse, she's a powerful force
You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
She used to look good to me, but now I find her
Simply irresistible, Simply irresistible
Her loving is so powerful, huh
It's simply unavoidable
The trend is irreversible
The woman is invincible
She's a natural law, and she leaves me in awe
She deserves the applause, I surrender because
She used to look good to me, but now I find her
Simply irresistible, Simply irresistible
Simply irresistible (She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went)
Simply irresistible (She's all mine, there's no other way to go)
She's unavoidable, I'm backed against the wall
She gives me feelings like I never felt before
I'm breaking promises, she's breaking every law
She used to look good to me, but now I find her
Simply irresistible . She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went
Simply irresistible She's all mine, there's no other way to go
Her methods are inscrutable
The proof is irrefutable, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
She's so completely kissable, huh
Our lives are indivisible
She's a craze you'd endorse, she's a powerful force
You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
She used to look good to me, but now I find her
Simply irresistible (She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went)
Simply irresistible (She's all mine, there's no other way to go)
Simply irresistible (She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went)
Simply irresistible (She's all mine, there's no other way to go)
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Around 2007 I thought that a small camera for my pocket was enough ... Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3, Canon PowerShot SX200 IS and Canon PowerShot SX210 IS until I bought another EOS1000D.
And yes, the trees in Germany sometimes have a number. It may be due to the fact that everything that is not regulated by law is prohibited in Germany. So, in principle.
Another aspect is that only about 25% of the employees are still working in real life and the rest are managing something and making meetings ... ;)
At Nagasaki Peace Park
Statue"Maiden of Peace" from China
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki_Peace_Park
In case if you like to know what is original image ( mine)
it is on 3rd comment.
Construction of the station began in the spring of 1933, simultaneously with work on the Moscow-Volga canal, and lasted four years and eight months. The building itself and the adjacent berths and the cargo port were built on a dry place, before the reservoir was filled [2]. Khimki river station became at that time the twelfth station in Moscow [3], however, the builders had no previous experience in creating stations of this scale. The principle of the station building with a central tower and a spire became a model for the construction of a number of river stations, which subsequently appeared, for example, in Krasnoyarsk and Nizhny Novgorod [4].
The idea of entropy comes from a principle of thermodynamics dealing with energy. It usually refers to the idea that everything in the universe eventually moves from order to disorder, and entropy is the measurement of that change.
The word entropy finds its roots in the Greek entropia, which means "a turning toward" or "transformation."
The advantages of living in the country :-). In the small forest directly behind my house sleep and hide very often many deer. But they are extremely shy. I lurk the animals in principle not, because I do not want to drive them away permanently.
I was just about to photograph ice crystals on the bushes in my garden, when it suddenly heard loud breathing and panting behind me. I could not believe it that two deer ran through the meadow, and I was even ready with the camera (more or less :-) ).
What an experience!
Le Grèbe huppé niche entre avril et juillet. À cette époque, les adultes portent une double huppe et des oreillettes brunes encadrant la tête. Lors de la parade nuptiale complexe, le mâle et la femelle se font face et dressent le cou. Il nagent de concert, se frottent le cou tout en émettant des cris sonores, plongent puis réapparaissent, l'un des deux présentant des algues à l'autre. Le couple s'immobilise, poitrine contre poitrine, et chaque oiseau tourne la tête d'un côté puis de l'autre. Ce manège peut se perpétuer même lorsque les grèbes sont occupés à la construction du nid. Ce dernier est constitué principalement d'algues . Il peut reposer sur un fond vaseux mais il est conçu en principe pour affleurer la surface. Il peut également flotter mais il est alors arrimé à une souche ou à un paquet de végétaux entremêlés. Les adultes en garnissent la coupe peu profonde de végétaux qui servent à recouvrir les œufs si les adultes s'absentent du nid. La ponte est composée de 3 à 6 œufs blancs qui virent ensuite au brun et deviennent de ce fait plus discrets. Les adultes couvent en se relayant toutes les quelques heures. L'éclosion intervient au bout de 28 jours. Les jeunes sont capables de nager aussitôt mais ils restent dépendants de leurs parents plusieurs semaines.
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The Great Crested Grebe nestles between April and July. At this time, adults wear a double crest and brown atria framing the head. During the complex courtship, the male and the female face each other and raise the neck. They swim together, rub their necks while emitting loud cries, dive and then reappear, one of them having algae to another. The couple stands still, chest to chest, and each bird turns its head on one side then the other. This ride can continue even when grebes are busy building the nest. The latter consists mainly of algae. It can rest on a muddy bottom but it is designed in principle to be flush with the surface. It can also float but is then stowed to a stump or a bundle of plants intermingled. Adults fill the shallow cut of plants that cover the eggs if adults are absent from the nest. The egg is composed of 3 to 6 white eggs which turn brown then become more discreet. Adult convent by taking turns every few hours. The hatching occurs after 28 days. The young are able to swim immediately but remain dependent on their parents for several weeks.
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Norman B. Rice
We want to reach out to those kids that are having a hard time..., we encourage them to talk to someone, a teacher, counselor, principle, anyone.
Jim Daly
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity to both those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Arthur Ashe
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View from the Lower Antelope slot canyon near Page, Arizona.
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Great Ocean Road Series
Part of the Twelve Apostles at the Great Ocean Road - Victoria, Australia.
I'm so glad I got to see this beautiful area last November - no idea when all the travel restrictions will be lifted.
Be safe everybody and do the right thing by staying HOME.
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who oppose it on principle :-)
Robert Brault
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waterlily, denver botanical garden, colorado
Cochin (Inde) - Tout photographe-voyageur qui est à Cochin (Kerala), se sent obligé de faire la "traditionnelle" photo des carrelets chinois. Je n'ai pas dérogé à la règle. Un soir, au soleil couchant, j'ai bénéficié de cette sublime lumière naturelle.
Pour la petit histoire, ces carrelets auraient été importés par des marchands chinois vers les années 1350-1450. On en trouve un peu partout dans le monde fonctionnant sur le même principe, notamment en France.
Aujourd'hui, ces filets de pêche constitués de supports en bois, de cordes, de poulies et de contrepoids sont devenus une vraie attraction touristique et l'emblème officieux de l'ancienne enclave hollandaise.
Moyennant quelques roupies, les pêcheurs vous proposent d'activer le système. Mais ne vous faites pas d'illusions, même si ces carrelets sont toujours utilisés, ils ne capturent que quelques rares petits poissons. Les vraies prises sont faites au large par des pêcheurs travaillant en barque à moteur.
Nets chinese
Cochin (India) - Any photographer-traveler who is in Cochin (Kerala), feels obligated to take the "traditional" picture of nets Chinese. I have not deviated from the rule. One evening, at sunset, I benefited from this sublime natural light.
For the record, these squares would have been imported by Chinese merchants around the years 1350-1450. They are found all over the world operating on the same principle, especially in France.
Today these fishing nets made up of wooden supports, ropes, pulleys and counterweights have become a real tourist attraction and the unofficial emblem of the former Dutch enclave.
For a few rupees, the fishermen offer to activate the system. But don't kid yourself, even though these nets are still in use, they only catch a few fish. The real catches are made offshore by fishermen working in motor boats.
. . . Looking at this Snowy Owl's right wing (on the top), I could not help but notice it's curved shape on the top side. This allows air to move faster on that side, and reduces the pressure there, allowing for lift, much like an airplane wing's shape. I know some former students of mine are groaning big time right now, but you cannot take the physics out of the teacher!
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By principle, I do not want to feed birds my myself to make them come for photo shots, because I dont want to change their behaviour ..
Yet I have to admit that it is much easier to get decent bird pics close to feeders than anywhere else ..
bleh
"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."
- Charles Darwin
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There are four cats at my friend countryside house but only two pillows in the kitchen. Interesting enough, the cats take naps at different times and thus do not fight her the pillows. This is a kind of resource partitioning (ecological principle).
This is always a very pretty lake no matter the time of year, and it's easily accessible.
Bound on all sides by mixed conifer forest, the lake is deep and clear. The west end is best for seeing waterfowl because it's sheltered from the prevailing wind. Link Creek, which empties into Suttle Lake, is shallow and clear enough to view spawning fish. Yellow, orange, or red hues from vine maple proclaim the arrival of autumn in September or October.
The lake was formed and a terminal moraine, which was deposited by glacial ice about 25,000 years ago during the Suttle Lake advance of the Cabot Creek glaciation. The principle surface input to the lake is Link Creek, which flows out of Blue Lake. The outlet of Suttle Lake is Lake Creek, which flows eastward into the Metolius River. The lake covers an area of 253 acres. The average depth of the lake is 44 feet with a maximum depth of 75 feet.
In principle, accommodations in Langtang Valley are owned and run by locals. Himalayan region in Nepal is mostly ethnic minority areas and they don't sell land to those from the outside.
The principle labour of the Christian is to believe that divine love is the breadth and length and height and depth, and that there is simply nothing above, below or beyond it. It is our home; it enfolds us and is our utmost security both in this life and in death and beyond.
--Essence of Prayer, Ruth Burrows, OCD
Vital principle is ascribed to a hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living matter are needed. Just like we need air to breathe, food to eat and shelter we also need water. In this case the water we need is the Great Salt Lake. Without we will no longer have a hospitibital environment to live in.
Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle
The amount of energy needed to refute bulls*** is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Also known as Brandolini’s Law, the Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle captures a circumstance we’ve all experienced. Those with an indifference to the truth are at an advantage. An argument is easily made. But dissecting a claim and verifying propositions and evidence is tiresome. And what if it’s part of the bulls****er’s plan to keep us busy refuting his nonsense?
I share the above principle, created in 2013 as a segway into this photograph. It is from my archives and was taken on 07 October, 2018 in Silver Glen on the docks of The Juniper Club.
As a tradition, I pass on photographing blue herons as they have become like robins…they are everywhere and way too easily photographed! In this case, a large pickerel looking to be near death swam slowly just below the docks. The heron stabbed it, snatched it up, walked it over to the grass behind the dock and proceeded to try and swallow it. As I sat in my chair fishing, I lifted my camera that unfortunately had my 600mm on it, deciding to capture its attempt to swallow the fish whole. This shot is not cropped vertically, it was all I could get without getting up and walking away.
Watching as it lifted it, I did some “Fancy Cyphering” (Jethro Bodine reference) and realized that the length of the fish was greater than the length of the heron body (minus tail feathers) and if swallowed, some of the fish’s tail would surely be in the heron’s neck. Not to mention the girth of the fish. I sat my camera back down to watch the action. The heron rocked the pickerel back and forth a few times building momentum, then with what seemed to be all the strength it had, while maintaining this grip, swung the fish high in the air and swallowed it with ease!
I watched in amazement as the large lump in its throat quickly slid out of sight and into its stomach! My mind quickly spun back into fancy cyphering mode as I tried to guess the weight of the bird* vs the weight of the fish…and if it would be able to fly now with that heavy a load of cargo?
*I just googled the average weight of a blue heron. It can range from roughly 4-8lbs. Let's call this one 6lbs…the fish was certainly in the 4-5lb range…that is a huge get for this hunter!
It continued to stand around for a few minutes until I decided to change locations. Once I got up, it swatted down for takeoff, pushed off the dock into the air. Remarkably, the weight of its meal didn’t seem to slow it down a bit.
Had I not seen “the swallow” for myself, I might have thrown the BS card on someone else telling this tale!
Saint Barbara's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic, and a stunning piece of architecture. Among the many things that makes it special is its wonderful roof. Tried a slightly different approach for the interior this time around. Following the principle of "photographing things for what they are, and for what else they are" the beautiful ceiling vault reminded me of a prawn, too.
Title: Always Know Sometimes Think It’s Me, 2019
Size: 120 x 120 cm, or 100 x 100 cm.
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Pond
An area of water smaller than a lake, often artificially made
Ponder
To think carefully about something, especially for a noticeable length of time
Ponderings is a series of semi-abstract photos of water features with vegetation, in which the light seems to play a game with our perception. The works not only contain reflections, but perhaps also invite us to reflect. From this principle, the name Ponderings originated.
After watching this two slightly immature eagles fight over this stump space I think I can say that, like the quantum mechanical Pauli exclusion principle, this proves that two eagles cannot occupy the same space on a stump simultaneously. Of course this violates the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment that tries to illustrate the absurdity of applying quantum theory to the macro-physical world, but hey, even that appears to be in question these days...
Taken 16 February 2020 near Homer, Alaska.
Photo was taken for the Grove Photo Club
This week's theme is "Replicate a famous painting or photo".
Here is the replica of a famous painting The Pleasure Principle by Rene Magritte
Photo Club meets every Saturday at 11.30am slt.
Architecte
COLBOC FRANZEN & ASSOCIES
Le design particulier du centre de quartier L’Arbrisseau est mis en valeur par son revêtement en aluminium non traité et en verre. Les fenêtres ouvrantes transparentes offrent différentes vues. Les fenêtres translucides, protégées selon le principe de l'éco-conception, créent différentes qualités de lumière. Ils garantissent des conditions visuelles et thermiques optimales été comme hiver.
The particular design of the L’Arbrisseau neighborhood centre is emphasised by its untreated aluminium and glass sheathing. The transparent opening windows offer different views. Translucide windows, protected according to the principle of eco-design, create different qualities of light. They guarantee optimum visual and thermal conditions in summer and winter.
Un petit moineau qui attend que les chiens s'en aillent pour aller manger. En principe fin du mois j'arrête de les nourrir, mais il me reste de la nourriture pour le moment donc je vais la terminer
A little sparrow waiting for the dogs to leave so he can eat. In principle at the end of the month I stop feeding them, but I have food left for the moment so I will finish it
"PRR" 8102 leads 20K under the signal bridge at Easton. In the six months since this picture was taken, the ETTS principle has reared its head here as the old Lehigh Valley signal bridge has been taken down. After living here for almost 15 years, I never thought to get a photo here until this Thanksgiving afternoon. Better late than never!