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News from the Far Side:
*I still can't see properly. I'll see a neurologist when I can get in. I don't have much hope that things will change. but I'm still standing. mostly.
*I had to get hearing aids, there's a loss in both ears. they should arrive next week. the cost of mine was about the same as a down payment on a million-dollar house would be. but they are pink.
*I'm listening to the wind. we are supposed to get tons of rain, but they've been telling us that for weeks. it's drizzling right now.
*I signed up for French lessons on both Babbel and Duolingo. I'm flunking. but tomorrow is another jour.
*eye cream does not erase under-eye bags. no buts about it.
*I read a lot, two or three books a week. but it's hard when I really can't see.
*my social calendar is full. with dr. appointments. but, maybe it'll get better.
we can only hope.
life in the fast lane
please view the photo in large size. I look less like a chipmunk.
loves to you all.
**There is still a war going on in Ukraine. please don't forget. do what you can to help.
and there is yet another war, in Israel and the Gaza strip. People in Gaza need help, too.
I know many of us are overburdened with trying to help....do your best.
NO MORE WARS.
NO MORE KILLING.
NO MORE SHOOTINGS.
and in the US Americans continue to kill Americans:
www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-
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Kind of Ugly now isn't it? Some other fellow had filled the gaps where the termites had eaten all the soft woods between hard growth rings with plaster of paris! And then proceeded to paint it white!
Later it was painted green. Orange stripper makes very short work of removing it all at once and within a three to four hour window you can scrape it all away! Then the fun begins! Removing enough of these inappropriate filling material to refill with a stainable filler or a properly colored Epoxy wood putty! Then I fashioned a new spline to hold the two halves together from scraps of solid oak flooring which were thrown in the dumpster next door while building the mansion a year and a half ago! LoL! I save all hardwood scraps! My Wife loves me, but my Packrat habits... Not So Much! You can glimpse some of my scraps in the buckets behind in this shot!Heh-Heh!
A properly painted classic blue and gold GP38-2 brings Connecticut Southern CSO-4 across its namesake river with Kings Island in the background. Taken on October 20, 2017.
Finally, a panorama that stitched together properly. I think I have trouble because I'm always doing panos with a super wide angle lens (which is a lot harder to stitch together than one done with a telephoto). I would have cropped the empty right sky lower a bit but I didn't want to lose the clouds on the left side.
This is a shot of some fog following a river twisting through the autumn tree covered hills. Luck wasn't in my favour during my QC trip, either in terms of weather or my route, but I was able to get some nice shots even though I didn't get too many epic fall shots. This was a morning on the Gaspé peninsula when things came together; I had checked the viewpoint at sunset and knew it would be best in the morning, and then I got some fog and the sun also broke through a bit.
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Standing stately atop a small hill in Brightling Park is the Greek, or perhaps more properly, Rotunda Temple. It was suggested by Sir Humphry Repton in his plans for the garden and is thought to have been designed by Sir Robert Smirke. The Temple is approximately 25 feet (7.62 m) tall and was built around 1810. This circular building has a hollow base that was perhaps used to store food and wine.
The Rotunda Temple has spawned several stories about Fuller and his cohorts. It has been said that he entertained lady friends there...perhaps even held orgies. Others speculate that he held card parties in the temple and gambled with his cronies for very high stakes. Unfortunately, we may never know exactly what went on.
Anyone proficient in processing high ISO photos - feel free to PM me and I will send the other wide RAW photos i shot - they are even more stunning however I failed to expose those properly and thus I lose too much foreground detail, however they capture the entire side to side rainbow & double Halo. P.S Flickr seems to be removing EXIF data
This bridge was originally and should still be properly known today as the Turners Falls - Gill Bridge but is today listed on many sources as the Gill - Montague Bridge. This name has spread because the local school district for the towns of Gill and Montague is called the Gill-Montague School District. The bridge is a low-level cantilever deck truss of considerable length. It includes a single Warren deck truss approach span at each end of the bridge, and an overpass span on the Turners Falls side.
The bridge is historically significant as a bridge built with federal Depression relief programs and funding. The bridge is technologically significant for its considerable size and complex design. The bridge is aesthetically significant for its art deco details. The most noteworthy architectural treatment is the fancy piers that rise above the deck with substantial art deco detailing and large bronze plaques.
The bridge appears to retain excellent historic integrity, including attractive metal pedestrian railings and minimal insensitive alterations to the trusses. This bridge was rehabilitated in 2013.
George (very small!) on the beach briefly last night, while i made sure the trash cans were properly weighted down with rocks on their lids, in prep for today’s storm— this morning we are all staying indoors
One of the advantageous of being out early in the morning looking for moths - views like this. Must go back and photograph it properly (without carrying all the mothing gear!) soon.
There are only a few mysteries in snowflakes I have yet to properly explain. As uncommon and curious as some features are – like the large “paddles” at the end of every snowflake branch here, there is an explanation for it. This crystal contains one of the few remaining things I cannot explain, right in the center: a “bubble ring”. And it’s not the first time I’ve seen it.
Circles in the snow are fairly common, caused when a thicker outer edge allows a snowflake to grow inward and thicken in the process. 60-degree edges become more rounded as they approach the center, eventually becoming circular. This circle is an indentation. I can imagine a way for it to close over with a ceiling of ice, sure; I believe a lot of bubbles can form this way. That would create a circle, not a ring.
This ring is surrounded by other bubbles that were likely created by 2nd-wave outward growth “filling in” the snowflake thickness and growing a ceiling of ice. Imagining the same feature without a “ceiling”, what would possibly be the cause of an indented ring as a feature on a snowflake? How could that form? I’ll go to bed with that thought on my mind tonight, but I doubt I’ll wake up in the morning with an answer.
The very large branch tips? If the growth slows with the same variables that normally produce the largest hexagonal plates, which requires very very slow growth (low humidity, but enough not to start sublimating), you see these types of features emerge. It’s not common, because such a thin cloud wouldn’t hold up a snowflake for long. Updrafts and various combinations of pressure systems can allow for it, if everything is dialed in just right.
This was shot on a Lumix S1R with a Canon MP-E 65mm F/2.8 1x-5x macro lens, and is a focus stack of just over 40 frames. The background behind all of my snowflake images? A home made black mitten, knit by my grandmother. She made them for all her grandchildren one Thanksgiving, many years ago – something to keep in the car if you break down on a rural road to keep you warm. I sweet gesture, and I put them in my car for just such an occasion.
Instead, a boring day at the office found the first and primary use for these mittens. The work day was sparse and I had just purchased the MP-E 65mm lens, so I experimented around the office in my free time. I quickly realized it was snowing, and shortly after I was searching for a nice contrasty background. I remember the mittens I had recently been gifted.
Every one of my snowflakes have been photographed against the same black mittens since the very beginning. :)
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Hola,
A la espera de que aparezcan las orquídeas de esta temporada (la cosa pinta muy mal, porque por estas fechas ya debería haber y todavía no hay ni una), tiro de archivo y os muestro esta de tiempos mejores. Es una variedad de Abejera oscura. El gran acercamiento implica cortes inevitables, pero quería mostrar lo mejor posible los delicados detalles de esta maravilla de la naturaleza.
Espero que os guste y gracias por adelantado por aportar vuestra opinión.
Saludos,
Pere
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Another shot from my all too brief visit to San Francisco on Wednesday. Today we head into the Santa Cruz mountains near Pescadero for our first of a number of trips to Camp Butano Creek this year - this weekend is staff training weekend and looks to be fun! I'm sure the camp volunteers have more fun than the actual campers :-)
Will be back on properly soon...
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The inside of the Target House in the grounds of Brodsworth Hall looks very old and a bit dilapidated. I saw it when we came here looking for autumn leaves etc (but autumn isn't in full swing yet so there weren't very many!) and loved the texture of the walls with the peeling plaster and how it seemed to contrast the bright and colourful scene outside. I loved the symmetry of the frame, too.
There is a small table and chair in the middle of the room and if I'd thought about it properly I could have included it and photographed the room as a whole, but because I only had a few minutes (as you can see through the window, my children were running off!) I cut the table and chair in half. This was too distracting, I felt, so I have cloned them out!
I only had my mobile phone with me though (I'd left my 'proper' camera at home) so although it's done a fairly good job, I'm not sure it looks as good as it did in real life!
one of the toughest birds to get a decent shot. All the time they "creep up" on big trees, which are too big for their size to frame properly in mind..
On this occasion, he was going from tree to tree like they always do. I noticed this smaller tree in the middle of two other big trees and kind of wished that he would try this tree as well... after a few minutes of waiting, HE DID 😍
"Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew – also known as Saint Peter's Cathedral in the United Kingdom – is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Peterborough, dedicated to Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of the famous West Front. Although it was founded in the Anglo-Saxon period, its architecture is mainly Norman, following a rebuilding in the 12th century. With Durham and Ely cathedrals, it is one of the most important 12th-century buildings in England to have remained largely intact, despite extensions and restoration." - Wikipedia.
This summer I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos. I recently got through my initial sifting through my photos and I'm now ready to share some of my favourites.
Perhaps of use.
Speaking of useful, if you only have a phone and struggle with photographing your stuff properly, have a look at my latest video here here.
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Pier Head (properly, George's Pier Head) is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2004.
The last of the three Pier Head sites between the Liver Building and the Docks and Harbour Board offices was for some time intended to be developed on behalf of the Corporation, partly to replace a nearby public baths and partly as offices for the city's new tram network. This scheme fell through, and in the early years of the 20th century a combined public baths and customs house was proposed. After several years that scheme, too, came to nothing, and in 1913 the Cunard shipping line announced its intention to build a new headquarters in Liverpool. The Cunard Building was built of reinforced concrete, clad in Portland Stone, in a style intended to recall grand Italian palaces.
Explore 30th September 2019 #45
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Mesa Verde National Park is a National Park and World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado. It protects some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in the United States.
Created by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, the park occupies 52,485 acres (21,240 ha) near the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. With more than 4,300 sites, including 600 cliff dwellings, it is the largest archaeological preserve in the U.S. Mesa Verde (Spanish for "green table") is best known for structures such as Cliff Palace, thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America.
Starting c. 7500 BCE, Mesa Verde was seasonally inhabited by a group of nomadic Paleo-Indians known as the Foothills Mountain Complex. The variety of projectile points found in the region indicates they were influenced by surrounding areas, including the Great Basin, the San Juan Basin, and the Rio Grande Valley. Later, Archaic people established semi-permanent rockshelters in and around the mesa. By 1000 BCE, the Basketmaker culture emerged from the local Archaic population, and by 750 CE the Ancestral Puebloans had developed from the Basketmaker culture.
The Mesa Verdeans survived using a combination of hunting, gathering, and subsistence farming of crops such as corn, beans, and squash. They built the mesa's first pueblos sometime after 650, and by the end of the 12th century, they began to construct the massive cliff dwellings for which the park is best known. By 1285, following a period of social and environmental instability driven by a series of severe and prolonged droughts, they abandoned the area and moved south to locations in Arizona and New Mexico, including Rio Chama, Pajarito Plateau, and Santa Fe.
Mesa Verde National Park is in southwest Colorado. It's known for its well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings, notably the huge Cliff Palace. The Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum has exhibits on the ancient Native American culture. Mesa Top Loop Road winds past archaeological sites and overlooks, including Sun Point Overlook with panoramic canyon views. Petroglyph Point Trail has several rock carvings.
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The only character that creeped the hell out of me and that I wanted to change for a long time. I suppose it was intentional but I could not even talk to her properly.
DL here: www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10980/?
Jon took care of the boy and used all the tricks he learned during his journey to smuggle the two of them back to their hometown. It was a long journey, yet with each step towards their families, they felt happier. But as Jon spotted his father he didn't even greet him properly. He shouted excitedly: "Father, father, Abdul..we have to take care...." Suddenly he saw how a tear ran down his father's cheek. "Son, how? Where have you been?", he stammered. Other people at the Marketplace recognised Jon and shouted: "He's back! And the kidnapped boy is with him! Jon is here!"
Jon's father said: "Jon whatever happened: Let's bring the blacksmith's son to his family. They're experiencing the worst time of their lives right now. Let's redeem them."
There are no Options anymore, sorry. There will be one final vignette soon :))
Hope you enjoy :)
(Linked for the frog-peppers, just realized that he used Joker's hair too, great stall!)
Fine art. Discuss. It seems to be a tagline I'm hearing more and more these days. Find a minimal subject - if it's surrounded by water that’s good. Pick your darkest filter. Add your second darkest filter on top of that for luck. Take an ultra long exposure to smooth everything out, edit it in black and white and call it fine art. Obviously if you're doing it properly you blur out the horizon and make your subject stand in a vacuum. “You can’t see the join!” said Eric. As one YouTube presenter announced before demonstrating his own work flow, “I'm going to Gary Gough it.” I do like Gary. I like his fine art images very much - oops I said it. And he always seems to be having enormous fun. I like it when these people look as though they're enjoying what they do. His recent adventures on a stormy Norfolk coast were an unspoken example of everything I love about this hobby. If you don’t go home feeling as if you’ve been in a pitched battle with Neptune’s army, then did you really have a great shoot by the sea? The best days are usually the ones when I return home covered in sand, with the taste of salt in my month and at least one sodden sock squelching away inside my boots.
And although none of us used the phrase “fine art,” it was the general consensus that Perch Rock Lighthouse was the ideal subject for sticking an almost black lump of glass on the front of the lens and standing about watching the seconds counting away. After two days of fearful weather, conditions had settled at last. A shame then that we were about to head for home after a week of exploring the Peak District and now Merseyside. But before we set off, there was just enough time for one last stop on the coast at New Brighton. We'd been here the night before, meeting Rebecca and the famous H, shooting into the wind and darkness as the tide rolled in and pushed us back towards the austere walls of the fort. By then, after almost a week of non stop activity we were feeding all togged out and ready to go home. I went through the motions, but wasn't sure that I was adding anything of note to the gallery in the depths of the blue hour.
Now we were here again, via a pit stop at West Kirby, sixteen stops at the ready, grabbing early lunch from Morrisons and pulling up in the car park next to where the Mersey rolls into the Irish Sea. That journey all the way home to Cornwall lay in wait. It was Friday morning and the last day before the half term holiday. The roads had been bad enough on the way up here. It was only going to be worse going home. But before all that there was the final appointment with the cameras, and conditions were ideal. A high tide, no wind, and soft spring light. If we were going to Gary Gough it, then this was our moment.
It's not because I was attempting to explore the world of fine art, but most of this Merseyside series has been presented in black and white. Almost. The coastal attractions here lend themselves to this kind of photography. OK a tiny hint of colour from West Kirby in the previous episode, but the world was mostly grey in these few days around the Wirral and surrounding area. I'm not sure it's what anyone would really call fine art, but I did enjoy making this group of images very much indeed, and the tough conditions we faced made them even more satisfying, stolen as they were from high winds and pouring rain. Even if I haven't Gary Goughed it and attempted to remove horizons. I’d like to say this is for reasons of misplaced integrity, but the truth is I haven’t summoned up the cojones to try it yet. But much like Gary, I was having enormous fun, even if I wasn't always completely aware of that at the time. Art or not, it's funny how the most memorable episodes so often emerge from adverse conditions. They so often deliver the images that take me right back to the moment I hit the shutter. And these Baltic days on the beaches of Merseyside and North Wales are certainly ones I’m not going to forget anytime soon.
I finished off the hidden waterfall with the light bley snake motif for now, with a view to redo the interior later in either yellow or sand green. The rock wall opens manually on either side and the explorer can decent on a wind up rope, partially hidden behind the spiderweb but still accessible. I tried mounted the rope to the tree stump but I couldn't get the rope to wind up properly.
I'm not totally satisfied with the trees; I pictured something more stylised or cartoony but I think I need to practice that more.
One thing that strikes to me as beautiful in the cold and generally dark winter are the brief moments of sunshine. If you spend a month without seeing the Sun once (our Novembers can literally be like that), you really appreciate the light.
In the dead of winter, when the sun is briefly and barely above the horizon, you can see these cruising against the clear blue sky. If the sky is clear, that is, it's very rare. The seemingly calm movement of the birds is actually pretty fast. You should use faster shutter speed to capture them properly but, well, the moment went by so fast. I'm just happy I got this.
The winter is gone for this year, welcome spring!
Like the title says, this is a reprise of an old photo from 2013.
Tsim Sha Tsui Right Before Sunset … zooming in, I can see our balcony, at the top of the second rightmost building in the background.
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"Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew – also known as Saint Peter's Cathedral in the United Kingdom – is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Peterborough, dedicated to Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of the famous West Front. Although it was founded in the Anglo-Saxon period, its architecture is mainly Norman, following a rebuilding in the 12th century. With Durham and Ely cathedrals, it is one of the most important 12th-century buildings in England to have remained largely intact, despite extensions and restoration.
Peterborough Cathedral is known for its imposing Early English Gothic West Front (façade) which, with its three enormous arches, is without architectural precedent and with no direct successor. The appearance is slightly asymmetrical, as one of the two towers that rise from behind the façade was never completed (the tower on the right as one faces the building), but this is only visible from a distance.
Peterborough is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 202,110 in 2017. Historically part of Northamptonshire, it is 76 miles (122 km) north of London, on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea 30 miles (48 km) to the north-east. The railway station is an important stop on the East Coast Main Line between London and Edinburgh. The city is also 70 miles (110 km) east of Birmingham, 38 miles (61 km) east of Leicester, 81 miles (130 km) south of Kingston upon Hull and 65 miles (105 km) west of Norwich.
The local topography is flat, and in some places the land lies below sea level, for example in parts of the Fens to the east of Peterborough. Human settlement in the area began before the Bronze Age, as can be seen at the Flag Fen archaeological site to the east of the current city centre, also with evidence of Roman occupation. The Anglo-Saxon period saw the establishment of a monastery, Medeshamstede, which later became Peterborough Cathedral.
The population grew rapidly after the railways arrived in the 19th century, and Peterborough became an industrial centre, particularly known for its brick manufacture. After the Second World War, growth was limited until designation as a New Town in the 1960s. Housing and population are expanding and a £1 billion regeneration of the city centre and immediately surrounding area is under way. Industrial employment has fallen since then, a significant proportion of new jobs being in financial services and distribution." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Exeter cathedral, Devon, UK
Exeter Cathedral, properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of Exeter, Devon, in South West England. The present building was complete by about 1400, and has several notable features, including an early set of misericords, an astronomical clock and the longest uninterrupted vaulted ceiling in England. The founding of the cathedral at Exeter, dedicated to Saint Peter, dates from 1050, when the seat of the bishop of Devon and Cornwall was transferred from Crediton because of a fear of sea-raids. A Saxon minster already existing within the town (and dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint Peter) was used by Leofric as his seat, but services were often held out of doors, close to the site of the present cathedral building. Notable features of the interior include the misericords, the minstrels' gallery, the astronomical clock and the organ. Notable architectural features of the interior include the multiribbed ceiling and the compound piers in the nave arcade. The 18-metre-high bishop's throne in the choir was made from Devon oak between 1312 and 1316; the nearby choir stalls were made by George Gilbert Scott in the 1870s. The Great East Window contains much 14th-century glass, and there are over 400 ceiling bosses, one of which depicts the murder of Thomas Becket. The bosses can be seen at the peak of the vaulted ceiling, joining the ribs together. Because there is no centre tower, Exeter Cathedral has the longest uninterrupted medieval vaulted ceiling in the world, at about 96 m
shortly after I shot this all these clouds vanished... right at sunset... which totally sucked.
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properly masked and staying at a safe distance for this group shot, the ducky nurses want to wish their human counterparts the happiness and health they deserve.... in MA (massachusetts) today is the day when masks must be worn when outside and proper distancing is not possible. our street is a quiet one so many people choose to walk their dogs and i've seen lots of masks-- yay, us!!
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Kuusamo (Lämsänkylä), Northern Ostrobothnia | Finland
This little opportunist chap was spotted stealing bits of bait that had been left outside one of the hides we visited (to attract Ravens that would in turn hopefully bring in White-tailed Eagles - another story). He was a long way off and extremely fast, so I’m quite surprised to have even one properly in-focus shot of him as he made his dash back to safety. Running around out in the open with the possibility of a raven or eagle spotting you isn’t a good idea when you’re only a small little critter!
As I’m sure everyone knows, they normally have a rich orange-brown coat on their upper parts and the outside of their legs, but in winter in northern regions this coat becomes thicker and pure white apart from the tip of the tail, which remains black throughout the year - this is when they’re often referred to as Ermine.
En Route to Wan Chai … passing the Central and Admiralty waterfronts.
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