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What I love so much about going back to photos I have taken over the years is how they not only bring back memories, but even more so the exact feelings I had while taking them. This was more than one and a half years ago when I had just moved to Stuttgart and began studying Visual Communication. It was a time of beautiful autumn colours, new friends and feeling whole again — and it is always lovely to remember those first weeks of a new life.
I knew there was a good reason that Tikki wanted me to make the 'favorite part' last Caturday be her tongue, not her ears. Took this photo for that purpose but, it is ideal for 24 August 2024 Happy Caturday: Back Views.
The stance of the large boat caught my eye even from a distance. The upturned bow put me in mind of its glory days, crashing through waves at high speed, surely to the thrill of the passengers. It reminded me of the displays of old military jets, set up on pylons to make it look like they are in flight. But in both cases, removed from the context of their intended uses, it's just not the same. In this case, the small boat alongside the larger somehow compounded the forlorn quality of the scene. The effect was heightened by the bleak surroundings.
“Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin”
Macro Monday project – 02/24/14
"One Color”
She kneels with purpose, power hums beneath her stillness.
Her language—spoken only by those strong enough to choose
She offers herself, reverent and thankful for this allowance.
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Commonly known as the carnation or clove pink, it is a species of Dianthus. It is probably native to the Mediterranean region but its exact range is unknown due to extensive cultivation for the last 2,000 years. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing up to 80 cm tall. The leaves are glaucous greyish green to blue-green, slender, up to 15 cm long. The flowers are produced singly or up to five together in a cyme; they are around 3–5 cm diameter, and sweetly scented; the original natural flower color is bright pinkish-purple, but cultivars of other colors, including red, white, yellow and green, have been developed. The fragrant, hermaphrodite flowers have a radial symmetry. The four to six surrounding the calyx, egg-shaped, sting-pointed scales leaves are only ¼ as long as the calyx tube. Carnations require well-drained, neutral to slightly alkaline soil, and full sun. They are used for medical purposes, such as for upset stomach and fever. Their fragrance was historically used for vinegar, beer, wine , sauces and salads. 32919
Hey guys, it's been a while.
I was inspired by Richard's TT Sniper rifle mod the other day, so I decided to whack a few TT parts together to make my own.
It's inspired by the Mk 12 Mod 0 Special Purpose Rifle.
To make it I used two TT SBR kits and a Sidan AWM for the scope.
Please excuse how rough the handguard looks - I had to fuse two together to get it the right length and it isn't the neatest.
Hope you guys like it!
Burns have entertainment value, but also purpose.
I have a special burn barrel with the bottom cut out. This is so I can move it around and place it on top of the large clumps of invasive non-native grass that I am trying to kill which is invading my wildflower meadow. (It's too rocky here to dig these deep-rooted grasses out).
The best time to kill grass with fire is in the summer when it is putting its energy into its leaves. In dormancy the plant's energy (and biomass) is safer, down in its roots. However, there is not enough burn load with the dead grass itself to eradicate it, so I use junk mail and other paper products. This is how grass was designed--to be grazed to the ground and be able to regrow.
I will continue to work this small plot through the summer, then it will take a couple years to build the micro-organisms back up, which I will hasten with an inoculation of soil from the creek, compost, and sprays of molasses. Then hopefully the wildflowers will recolonize.
Claude Monet Quotes.
* La misma foto que subi hace unos días pero esta vez a colores. Creo que también vale la pena verla así.
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Detail from a homemade electrical device I got at a swap meet once. No idea about it’s intended purpose.
Please read this:
This picture was not meant to be.
It was supposed to be indicator where one set of images for panorama ends, and another one starts
( took the camera, turned to the floor and fired without thinking ),
and at the end, it was the most interesting picture of that day.
During my last stay in Northern Germany I visited the same site as last year for a second take on the European common spadefood. This time, despite the terribly dry and hot summer, I was able to find six Individuals during the night and early morning, five of which had just recently undergone metamorphosis. I later learned, that the population in question acts as one of two donor populations in a reintroduction effort. Some spawn is harvested and tadpoles are reared in captivity for head starting purposes. Some of the metamorphs then are not used for the reintroduction program but returned to the donor population to compensate for the prior harvest. A batch of such individuals had been returned to the site just before my little night hike and so accounted for the relative high number of animals I encountered. I am deeply grateful to people working on projects just like this, doing their best to sustain and reconnect populations of threatened species in an increasingly fragmented landscape.
Abgrabung bei Trappenkamp.
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This is Rainbow Falls in Watkin’s Glen, a lovely little spot in Upstate New York. I made time to visit this location when traveling to Princeton, NJ recently to hold some photography workshops, and I’m glad I made the journey!
I was accompanied by a student of mine, Carl Crumley, who had been here years prior. While there were many places to set up for a shot, this iconic point of view was what attracted me to the locale. Carl set up in a drier location about 20 feet away from me, but I opted for a dripping-wet position (the overhanging cliff above me was drenching me and my camera gear) because it had a better view down the gorge to show more of the path of water.
I used my Trioplan 100 lens for this, which at first might seem like an odd choice, but it worked incredibly well. This manual-only lens is known for its “soap bubble bokeh” when shooting wide open, but I find it to be a tack sharp lens when stopped down. It’s sharper than my Canon 24-105 F/4L, especially in the corners; this might be due to the way I’ve abused my more “modern” lens over the years, having sent it in for repairs a number of times. It was great when it was new, but I rarely use it these days – opting for prime lenses of any variety for better results.
Shooting at 100mm from this vantage point means that I needed to shoot this image as a grid panorama, taking roughly 20 shots with sufficient overlap and extra coverage around the edges to allow flexibility in the final crop afterwards. This technique has the benefit of creating a higher resolution image, and avoids some of the issues I have with wide angle lenses “stretching” things in the corners of the frame more than I care for in scenarios like this.
I don’t often shoot for a black & white image, but the colour image was more distracting than helpful. The water wasn’t a pleasing blue tone, and while I could adjust this in post, things felt a little more serene when the colour was removed entirely. If you’re curious, here’s the colour version: donkom.ca/bts/DKP_0317.jpg
Each of the component images was 30 seconds long, which served two purposes relating to motion blur. Any exposure of 1 second or longer would help to smooth out the water and create a soft flow, but going longer than this usually has minimal effect on the water. This location was FILLED with tourists however, and a 30 second exposure is long enough to blur people so far that they become invisible (as long as they keep moving during that time). As a result, a very busy location appears much more isolated and peaceful.
Waterfalls are a fun element of “the unseen world” to explore when you slow down the exposure and remove colour, forcing us to see them in terms of lines and shapes more than we would with our own eyes. The adventure continues!
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Conneaut, Ohio. USA.
I was going through some files on my computer and came across this image and realized I had never posted it on Flickr. This is one of my favorite all-time images and experiences. My wife Fran and myself were in a shallow lagoon at the Conneaut sandspit, along the edge of Lake Erie in mid August.
After birds migrate across Lake Erie, this is the first piece of real estate they hit. Many birds are exhausted from the flight and make a pit stop here. This Phalarope literally fell out of the sky about 10 feet in front of me. The light and reflection were perfect but the bird was too close for me to get the bird and reflection. I couldn't move back for fear of spooking the bird, so I carefully took the tele-converter off my lens. Now I'm in business. Was my heart pounding. The Phalarope was cooperative for about 15 minutes-an eternity for a bird photographer.
Nikon D300 with Nikon 500mm f4 G VR lens
1/1250 f8 ISO 500
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I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever;
With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 89:1
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"Patrol and Public Relations In Liverpool's Sefton Park..."
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The primary purpose of the Porte de Trèves (square tower measuring around 8m in length and 17m in height) is to enable access to the city.
In the year 1332, John the Blind, count of Luxembourg and La Roche, king of Bohemia and Poland, grants the City a Charter. In exchange, the city is obliged to ensure the upkeep of the city walls, which the citizens must keep guarded. In 1688, the city walls are demolished by order of the king Louis XIV, and the Porte de Trèves is converted into a prison and halfway house until the First World War.
Restoration work was carried out during the 19th century. The damage caused by the Von Rundstedt Offensive in 1944-1945 also almost destroyed the building.
To this day, the Porte de Trèves is the last remaining vestige of the fortifications that surrounded the city in the middle ages.
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NIKON D7200 with Nikon 500 mm f/4 lens and 1.4 converter.
ISO 400 f/5.6 1 /320 fill with flash
The sweet, lazy whistles of Eastern Meadowlarks waft over summer grasslands and farms in eastern North America. The birds themselves sing from fenceposts and telephone lines or stalk through the grasses, probing the ground for insects with their long, sharp bills. On the ground, their brown-and-black dappled upperparts camouflage the birds among dirt clods and dry grasses. But up on perches, they reveal bright-yellow underparts and a striking black chevron across the chest.
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An SD40-2 pair from BN and ATSF lead NS train D70 on Main Track 4 at CP 35 on the BNSF Emporia Sub along the Kaw River as it heads into BNSF's Argentine Yard with transfer tonnage from NS's Voltz Yard. They are about ready to pass a Herzog Multi-Purpose Machine working on the recently reinstalled Main Track 5 from CP 35 to CP 39 by AY Tower. 2/25/19.
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The gloriously named (and coloured) Superb Starling (Lamprotornis superbus) hails from East Africa. Breeding pairs get help raising their chicks from other family group members, notably juveniles from the previous brood – how about that for community living?
I encountered this handsome beauty, plus its family and friends, at Kuala Lumpur’s 21-acre Bird Park, home to more than 200 species and 3,000 individual birds. Much of the park comprises a ‘free flying’ area, where the nets are so high and so wide that the birds, to all intents and purposes, are pretty much free range. Simulating their natural habitats and diets has also led to a successful captive breeding programme.
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St Pierre is a former parish and hamlet in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, 3 miles (4.8 km) south west of Chepstow and adjacent to the Severn Estuary. It is now the site of a large golf and country club, the Marriott St Pierre Hotel & Country Club, which was previously a large manor house and deer park belonging to the Lewis family.
The manor of St Pierre was originally part of the parish of Runston, now a deserted village whose only standing remains are Runston Chapel, and was later amalgamated for civil purposes with the neighbouring parish of Mathern. It is uncertain whether the name originates from a Welsh family, Pŷr, or is of Norman origin.
Around 1380, St Pierre was owned by Sir David ap Philip, who served under King Henry V in France, and the name of his son, Lewis, was later adopted by his family and descendants as their surname. The estate continued in the ownership of the Lewis family until 1924, although they had moved out of the mansion to the neighbouring Moynes Court in the late 19th century. The last member of the family to own the estate was Air Commodore Freke William Wiseman-Clark, who died without issue in 1908. Thomas Lewis, Esq., married the daughter of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London, and other Lewis family members also made propitious marriages. Several members of the family became High Sheriffs of Monmouthshire. Others became Members of Parliament, including Thomas Lewis who was MP for Monmouth, Newport and Usk between 1713 and 1752. His family took over and developed the "New Passage" ferry service across the Severn from Black Rock, in competition with the "Old Passage" service run from Beachley by the Duke of Beaufort. In 1925, the mansion and deer park were sold to Daniel Lysaght.
The former manor house includes an important 16th-century gatehouse which is a Grade II* listed building, but the remainder of the building was largely built in the 19th century. Major extensions have been added since the house became a hotel in the 1960s. It was bought by Tintern Abbey Hotels in 1961, and a golf course (now "the Old Course") was opened in 1962 with a second course in 1975.
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I face a conundrum in my life as my bucket list continues to grow even as my days remaining on this planet decrease. This summer I had a goal of doing more photography of birds in flight. My number one target is to get a pheasant taking off and getting photos of it flying through the air but my efforts so far have produced a choice of blurred photos, unflattering photos of pheasant hind ends or nice photos of landscapes where the pheasant recently flew over.
But little by little, I am making some progress. My wife says I have a strong fascination with kingfishers and she is probably right. So far this summer I have singular photos of kingfishers sitting on a tree with a minnow hanging out of their mouth, blasting into the water and coming up with great force.
However, to capture a kingfisher from a perch on a tree through his dive and flight back to the perch with his catch in consecutive shots has not matched my skill set. This photo was in a series of shots of a kingfisher on his way down to the water where he had spotted a minnow swimming near the surface.
I was pleased with the colors and clarity and impressed by the look of the sole purpose on his bird face.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Route learning unit, modified for the purpose. Formally 2-EPB 6232 it remained in service about 10 years.
This pic was taken a week ago..the glittering ice is now buried under piles of stupid snow after the "blizzard". It snowed for two freakin' days, people! Winter needs to go away...it serves no purpose!
So you can see why I need to force myself to see the beauty and the magic in this wretched season!