Kingston Trio

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hxg3B-

1OsA&t=124s

Marlene Dietrich

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kveooWmqqr8

Annie Fischer : Beethoven, Hammerklavier

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBlg0RL9a1Q

NEUE STIMMEN 2018 - Prizewinners concert: Mingjie Lei and Petr Sokolov, "Au fond du temple saint"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBu_Yk4EGj4

Palestrina Choral Music

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBEwP95zNGk

This is still a daytime shot taken in March with my old kitlens, with lots of cyan chromatic abberation I had to desaturate and remove around all the edges, (What a blessing my new Tamron lens is!)

One of the 1st prizewinners of the Summer in the City photochallenge in Pinnacle photography group - October 2014

From the 66th Pacific Orchid Exposition at the San Francisco Fairgrounds on February 22-25, 2018 organized by the San Francisco Orchid Society

"Kausalkonsequenz" ...

"Matter Motion" ...

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How about a bit of Christmas fun? I have just won the Essex Wildlife Trust's photo competition with my hare in flax pic in the wilder Essex category. Now public voting is on for the overall winner. If you want to join in go to bit.ly/3gCGqXo to see the 6 contenders and vote for your favourite (and it doesn't have to be mine).

RHS Wisley Gardens Flower Show. Woking, Surrey, UK

Another chooky shot from the Mansfield Show last Saturday.

Classically glacier-carved glen, with Beinn Dorain showing on the right, and (I think) Black Mount in the far distance with Rannoch Moor - and Glen Coe beyond, leading eventually to the far North West, haven't been up there for far too many years now.

On this day out, took both the newish 7D and the newly acquired but elderly 5D and shot alternately with each. This shot wasn't any prizewinner for sharpness so ran it through Topaz which smartened it up quite well.

This photo was taken at the Sony World Photography Awards at Somerset House in London.

The main photograph was taken by Pol Kurucz. It received third place in the creative category.

My minor contribution was catching a member of the public viewing this artwork.....

Thanks for visiting....

Denny went on to become an Agronomist, so specialized, so intelligent, such a dear person.

A clever creation that I spotted at the Hawkesbury Agricultural Show. This was created by someone 5 - 9 years old - very clever.

Not a prizewinner, just more proof that Apple's delivered a really fine iPhone 11. Walking back from the mailbox at midnight (had to get out of house, so I thought I'd pick up a book that UPS had delivered) I saw a chance to try the iPhone 11s night vision. Here's a half-second, handheld exposure. Lights on in the garage and the master, clear sky, half-moon, stars, outlines of big oaks and hickories. All that plus automatic geolocation. Not too shabby. ©2020 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com

This photo of Nikita (on the left) sparring with her sister Aurora (both of Toronto Zoo) has won First Prize in Popular Photography's monthly YOUR BEST SHOT contest. It appears in the April, 2012 issue.

The photo originally appeared in the photoset, 'words from the wolf'.

Odd that there are only two Towhees in my range, one a very pretty ground dweller with spotted sides and an orange throat and red eye, and then this one, the California Towhee, also a ground feeder and dweller and 90% buff in color. Both are very fast, and bother difficult to capture. I have two of each after 10 years and I'll take it. As you will find if you just look up "Towhee" (instead of California Towhee which I've always done), you will find the other species (as Tom pointed out to me):

Genus Melozone:

Abert's towhee ('Melozone aberti)

California towhee (Melozone crissalis),

Canyon towhee (Melozone fusca)

White-throated towhee (Melozone leucotis)

Genus Pipilo:

Green-tailed towhee (Pipilo chlorurus),

Collared towhee (Pipilo ocai),

Eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus),

Spotted towhee (Pipilo maculatus),

Bermuda towhee (Pipilo naufragus) — extinct

All are sparrows, and all have this characteristic: "Most species tend to avoid humans, so they are not well known, though the eastern towhee P. erythrophthalmus is bolder." The hardest one to find is the Bermuda Towhee, probably because it's extinct.

Arch. Will Alsop & Jan Störmer, 1999. The orange blob on the roof is a ventilation shaft cover and the large overhang reduces solar gain on the south façade. There is no air conditioning system. The building has attracted high numbers of users. London Borough of Southwark.

I have wanted to get one of those moody misty dawn shots of Corfe Castle and this isn't one of them, but it could have been a lot worse! As we drove up to Corfe Castle from our base in Swanage it started to rain. The downpour persisted as we were climbing up West Hill, opposite the castle so we did not have much confidence in getting any reasonable image. However, our perseverance paid off - as we neared the top the rain stopped and the clouds started to let some glimpses of dawn colour through. This one was taken as we were on our way back down after sunrise. The low sun glancing off the castle walls and bathing the hill was very attractive. There is even some mist rising from the field to the right. OK, not a landscape photographer of the year prizewinner but a worthwhile end to the visit anyway

This photo of Inukshuk bathing alone in the trysting pool has won First Prize in Photo Life's Image International 2010 Photo Contest's Nature Category. It will be published in their February/March, 2011 issue.

Waiting for her train on the West Highland Line, travelling with her prize winning cat.

The Edinburgh and East of Scotland Cat Club aims to promote the welfare of all cats and to hold cat shows. The club was formed in 1949 and became affiliated to the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (GCCF) in the 1970s. they welcome cat lovers interested in showing their cats whether pedigree or household pets.

Thanks to Jeff Wharton for photo of re enactor cat lover

( flic.kr/p/2oFCEmF ) background photo from my own camera )

It's good to be goal-directed. Having a goal, or even a shoot list, gets me out of the house, motivated, active, and engaged; all good. But I also try to leave a blank spot on the map, a "nothing zone" inside myself, to allow for the unexpected and perhaps even for the miraculous. And there are days when I am able to go out with a blank mind (well, as blank as possible) - perhaps it's better to refer to it as an open mind. And by that I mean being open to anything and everything good that comes my way, without preconceptions or self-judgement. This is an important part of the creative process, and it can result in a mental fluidity wherein "anything goes". If I'm really, really lucky, something great will emerge.

I was in just such a state of mind one morning in June. I got out reasonably early and drive one of the local backroads. Just looking. Stopping frequently, getting out to look some more, this time not at speeds of 30 mph or more, but just standing there, and of course this allowed me to listen, too, and smell whatever my feeble nose could discern on the breeze. I think I touched things. I don't recall tasting anything. At any rate, I was engaging most of my senses in the experience of being out on a beautiful prairie summer morning.

I shot a few very green, very pastoral landscapes in the rolling ranch and farm lands that encircle my little prairie village, and I made some cloud shots too, but mostly I used the big lens and focused on critters. I stopped for some llamas in a pasture. I found a meadowlark with a bill full of nesting material. Driving on to Grasslands Park, I photographed a killdeer pair with a small brood of chicks. Add a marbled godwit and some black-tailed prairie dogs and a few pronghorn - our North American antelope - to the mix. And this Merlin posed for me on a fence post. Usually these little falcons fly off, but it was my lucky morning: I got the shot.

Now, I don't think there were any prizewinners among my results that day; the sky didn't do anything dramatic, the animals and birds just went about their ordinary business. But I loved every minute of it, breathing the clean air and feeling connected to the place. That sense of being part of, not separate from, what we call nature (and generally consign to some place "out there" rather than recognizing it as an essential part of our lives) is what floats me through the bad days, the "off" days, the days when I question my life's path or wonder how I got talked into doing some of the things I do (wedding photography???). And being connected does enhance the chances of being present when something extraordinary happens. On this day, however, the Merlin was sufficient. I returned home happy.

Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win. John W. Holt, Jr.

*happy bokeh wednesday*

Voor het 365 dagen project op zoek naar het 24e plaatje. Na een regenbui in de havens van Amsterdam omgekeerd naar huis. En toen zagen we deze mooie wolken en zonsondergang......nb vlak bij huis.....

We were looking for my 24th picture for the 365 project. Went to the westside of Amsterdam to get some shots of the harbour. Started raining and we went home. When we were almost home we saw the beautifull sunset with the heavy rainclouds.

Postscript. This picture was a 1st prizewinner at a contest in a national newpaper.

copyright © Mim Eisenberg/mimbrava studio. All rights reserved.

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He has his red rosette in hand to prove it too! Taken at Achill horse show.

The Road through the Nettles.

Summer nettles, head high, hid the path from view.

Each year we trod the way

anew.

The openness of winter, held, for us,

no interest.

The risk of stinging pains, necessary to our childish minds,

lent excitement to our games.

In spring this old allotment,

long disused,

came into life with tall yellow tulips,

discarded bulbs thrown out with garden weeds.

And flowering aconites,

green and gold,

grew on the common rubbish heap close to the track.

But best of all, this summer rite

of treading nettles

to the old brick wall,

relic of an ancient pigsty

in the corner

beneath the twisted tree.

Here we played for days on end until, suddenly bored,

moved on to the hollowed hedges,

or to the sandpits in the field,

or to the blackened willow

still in growth

despite its burnt out heart.

Here it was, I fell

rolling over, bare-armed in the elder-scented heat,

stung beyond the help of docken leaves.

Here too, my cousin

stamped life from a fledgling bird,

newly hatched,

while we girls watched in speechless shock.

Not for him the usual mindless cruelty of small boys,

tearing wings from butterflies, and tormenting frogs.

We never spoke of it again,

but now, long after his own death,

I wonder

if the path to self-destruction began, for him

on this summer

nettle day.

1st published in the Housman Society Prizewinners' Anthology 2002

and in Partners Poet Tree magazine, Feb 2005

One of the pups had dragged this seed head onto the door step as the sun was setting last evening - and thanks to many of you who encouraged me to be 'braver' with my exposure settings and with the post processing!! - Thank you.

- I quite like this I hope you do too. :))

Update: 28/08/14 - I have rotated my image because this is how I presented it to the Ilminster Art Centre Photographic Open competition and I also renamed it 'Tufted Thistle' - and blow me away!!!!!! it only went and won 2nd prize with a generous financial reward too (enough to pay for the printing and framing costs :)) ) Thank you flickr friends because without you I would not have achieved this :)) and without some family members it would never have reached the Art Centre :))

On a photo shoot with Sulfite tonight for a glorious sunset. Here I'm wondering what to photograph !

I'm delighted the newspaper used my photo on the 13th to announce the winners and to publicize the Flying Colors Butterfly Festival at the Chattahoochee Nature Center yesterday, where the winners were officially given their ribbons (checks to follow by mail). It was also a thumbnail on page one of the Weekend Northside section, leading to the article shown in my second photo below.

I thank Lydia for her help in showing me how to create this announcement.

I haven't been doing a greet job visiting these last few days, and I probably can't much today either. Between the contest award and the storms (yes!) we've been having, necessitating computer shutdowns, I'm behind in my work. I'll try to catch up with you later, but I'm not sure I'll be able to. Thanks for sharing my glee in the award.

EDIT: I just saw the photo featured again in the AJC, this time on the front page of the Sunday Northside section. Very cool.

I had my 1950's MINOLTA Autocord slow speeds done . I had some of the Infamous FOMA PAN 100 in fridge so thought I would try it in my Home-Made 510-Pyro -- RESULT -- GREAT NEGS ! Fantastic Definition and Tonal Range for a 'Cheaper ' Film. No 'Camera Club Prizewinners' only Tests. Here I used a Bayonet 1 ORANGE FILTER and f11 .Great DETAIL on Brickwork .

I had my 1950's MINOLTA Autocord slow speeds done . I had some of the Infamous FOMA PAN 100 in fridge so thought I would try it in my Home-Made 510-Pyro -- RESULT -- GREAT NEGS ! Fantastic Definition and Tonal Range for a 'Cheaper ' Film. No 'Camera Club Prizewinners' only Tests. Fill-in FLASH from small Sunpak

1/100 @ f6.3

This won third prize in the Manchester Day 2017 photo competition.

I had my 1950's MINOLTA Autocord slow speeds done . I had some of the Infamous FOMA PAN 100 in fridge so thought I would try it in my Home-Made 510-Pyro -- RESULT -- GREAT NEGS ! Fantastic Definition and Tonal Range for a 'Cheaper ' Film. No 'Camera Club Prizewinners' only Tests. 100th @ f6.3

The curvature of the Gateshead Millennium bridge is evident in this photograph. The bridge curves when it is down and appears to 'blink' when it is raised. The Baltic Mills building, architects Ellis Williams, is in the background.

The Nobel Museum (Swedish: Nobelmuseet) is located in the former Stock Exchange Building (Börshuset) on the north side of the square Stortorget in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. (The Swedish Academy and the Nobel Library are also in the same building.) The Nobel Museum showcases information about the Nobel Prize and Nobel prizewinners, as well as information about the founder of the prize, Alfred Nobel (1833–1896). The Nobel Museum opened in the spring of 2001 for the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize.

I had my 1950's MINOLTA Autocord slow speeds done . I had some of the Infamous FOMA PAN 100 in fridge so thought I would try it in my Home-Made 510-Pyro -- RESULT -- GREAT NEGS ! Fantastic Definition and Tonal Range for a 'Cheaper ' Film. No 'Camera Club Prizewinners' only Tests. 1/400 @ f11 I reckoned the 1/400th would 'Run Slow' All small details are resolved !

ALL black crow species (in flight against a bright sky) are the very devil to expose with any sort of plumage detail showing. Because they're completely different from the rest of the sky in the frame. (obviously)

Although most any other predominantly black bird won't be any different... Most unadjusted results produce a black silhouette with nothing in the dark mass that responds to clawback attempts. So you have to up the exposure enough to burn out all sky past redemption. Even then - the results aren't prizewinners... So don't look at this one except on your mobile phone please! :)

Depiction of single-mother sisters Roma and Emma Jones and their children created by Turner prizewinner Gillian Wearing

@Centenary Square, Birmingham.

by Joy Heylen. artist's statement: For me, making art is a commitment to the traditions and the techniques of the old age blacksmiths utilising a blend of age old techniques and modern and cutting edge technologies. I love to express my ideas about beauty in an organic and original way and am energised by breaking the boundaries of steel. 'The Crab' is an innovative blend of cutting edge technology and blacksmith techniques. The scale and luminosity of pattern and overlaying steel sections create a site majestic presence.

Swell Sculpture Festival

This sculpture took out the main prize this year!

www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&am...

Crab on Currumbin Rock wins $15,000 Swell Sculpture Award

Suzanne Simonot, Gold Coast Bulletin

September 7, 2017 9:00pm

A 3M-WIDE crustacean perched atop Currumbin Rock was last night named winner of this year’s $15,000 Swell Sculpture Award.

Created using corten steel, galvanised bolts and stainless-steel cable, The Crab, by Joy Heylen, is one of 50 artworks on display along a 1km stretch of Currumbin Beach until September 17 as part of this year’s 15th annual Swell Sculpture Festival.

this fella still returns.

In 1996, Stagecoach experimented with articulated coaches in Scotland. This Jonckheere Mistral was one of the first examples purchased for use on services from Glasgow to Fife. Later in life it was converted to carry prizewinners in a Stagecoach competition to Disneyland Paris.

copyright © Mim Eisenberg/mimbrava studio. All rights reserved.

3rd place, Chattahoochee Nature Center/Roswell Photographic Society photo contest, July 2008

I hope you don't mind if I'm tooting my own horn. I was pleased to win the award--and a hundred dollars. The dragonfly is just an inch long (!!), and I shot it with my S5 at 12x zoom, handheld, and then severely cropped it. Fortunately, it printed out just fine as an 8x10.

The framed photo of this and two others of mine join the 1st and 2nd place winners and honorable mentions and other pieces that were juried in for the contest in a traveling exhibit.

Schedule:

July 14-28--National Park Service Headquarters at Island Ford Unit. Directions.

Juy 29-August 12--Bank of North Georgia; 10446 Alpharetta Highway

August 12-26--Roswell City Hall Rotunda

I hope to catch up with you all later. Thanks for dropping by.

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Finishing up an outdated FUJI PROVIA 100F in my PENTAX 6x7 Mk II -- went over Weald Country Park -- Great Camera Club / FLICKR Mate RICHARD helped to carry the heavy gear ! Not PRIZEWINNERS by any means !

SMC- Takumar 200mm f4 + Polariser

At the Picton Fall Fair.

Okinawa Summer Festival 2015

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Uno de los luchadores más machos en el contesto Howl-O-Ween 2006 para los perros pequeñitos y muy adorables en Alameda.

Más de: Victoria Klum, Lane Hartwell, Sarah Kim, Brian Bennett.

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