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At the rear of the services on the M6 Toll road. There is a path which climbs a knoll overlooking the service area and where people are encouraged to walk their dogs. As we passed through yesterday there was a digger on the mound putting in the foundation of a new monument to the air ambulance crews. Despite all the noise I took the path and was astonished to see these deer to the rear of the site where the new housing has been built. Although it was wonderful to see it is perhaps another indication of just how far we have encroached on wildlife habitat.
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Thank you for putting up with me flickr friends. I know I type dyslexic all the time without realizing it. I leave words out of my sentences completely. My friends tell me they have learned a new language by being my buddy on instant messages. Now I just noticed I have been handing out spanish invites to all of my friends for two days! I told you yesterday I am still silly. Well here you go!!! LOL
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04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
The famous pelicans of St James`s Park London are such characters and love entertaining the visitors. Have a great week ahead everyone!
i just love this photo , it was used on my blog , a little while back , so im putting it up here now ... have a great day everyone !
The darkened gloomy sky is a negative influence over the orchard trees that are trying to put a happy twist on the holiday season.......much like the Omicron Variant of Co-vid is putting a supreme damper on our Christmas season.
The Great Blue Herons are nesting again and occasionally putting on a show. They are both prehistoric, majestic and elegant all at the same time. One of my favorite birds. (Ardea herodias) (Sony a1, 200-600 lens @ 559mm, f/6.3, 1/2500 second, ISO 640)
While back east during the process of putting my young lad to rest after his untimely and tragic demise earlier in February of this , I wandered through several of my old photographic haunts like Hoboken NJ, the wonderful Erie Lackawanna Ferry-Rail Terminal now utilized by New Jersey Transit, PATH and New York Waterway today. The green patina of the oxidized copper adorns it’s exterior.
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My lovely Aunty is an amazing artist and I always love seeing what she comes up with next. I was honoured she asked me to take some photos on my last visit.
The great historic barrier of the Caucasus Mountains rises up across the wide isthmus separating the Black and Caspian seas in the region where Europe and Asia converge. Trending generally from northwest to southeast, the mountains consist of two ranges—the Greater Caucasus (Russian: Bolshoy Kavkaz) in the north and the Lesser Caucasus (Maly Kavkaz) in the south. Mount Elbrus in the Greater Caucasus range, at 18,510 feet (5,642 metres), is the highest peak. The watershed of the Greater Caucasus, the backbone of the system, traditionally has been part of the line dividing Europe and Asia, but Europe’s eastern boundary has been the subject of much debate. One widely accepted scheme draws the dividing line along the crest of the Greater Caucasus range, putting the portion of the region north of the line in Europe and the portion south of it in Asia. Another puts the western portion of the Caucasus region in Europe and the eastern part (the bulk of Azerbaijan and small portions of Armenia, Georgia, and Russia’s Caspian Sea coast) in Asia. Still another scheme identifies the Aras River and the Turkish border as the line of continental demarcation, thereby locating Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia in Europe.
Blower Bentley number 4 owned by billionaire Ralph Lauren, and an example of a philosophy that looked good on paper......take a proven 4 1/2 liter four cylinder (winning Le Mans in 1928) engine putting out 110 hp and strap on a supercharger and voila! 240 hp. This was done over WO Bentley's strong objections, who felt that messing with the finished engine in that way would add problems more than speed. He felt if you needed more HP, you added cylinders, thus the LeMans winning Bentley in '29 was a speed 6, and the winner in 1930 was a straight 8.......but, in the age of focus on long distance racing, testing the reliability of components, the more glamorous blower Bentleys NEVER won a race......though they remain far more desirable and expensive.
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The US Air Force Thunderbirds putting on a show at the Florida International Airshow. The man mad type of bird. The photography is similar to wildlife photography which I usually do.
(278/365) Autumn colours starting to show in the trees at Newmarket's recently revamped Pitch & Putt course. I don't play golf but am going to try & do the 1km perimeter walk 2 or 3 times a week. It's a lovely walk with a stream & varied habitats. My son works 3 days a week in the restaurant at the James O'Keeffe institute which is adjacent to the course so when I drop him off I can do some power walking. That's the theory anyway lol my trouble is I keep stopping to take photos! HTMT!
Over the past couple of days I have been in Scotland along the Fife Coastal trail and there are some beautiful little harbours in this corner of Scotland. Though I thought Crail was by far the most picturesque of those I saw. Certainly worth a visit if you are ever in the area.
Sorry for the lack of activity here on Flickr but recently I have been puttting a lot of effort into my motorsport feeds on here and also on Instagram. Not everyones cup of tea but a great hobby of mine.
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A boat trip to Staffa promised so much: minke whales, dolphins, basking sharks, orca, sea eagles and Fingal's Cave, the famous inspiration for Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture. There was the faint hope of seeing a few puffin stragglers too.
But the weather was against us. Not hugely rough, but enough waves and swell to prevent our skipper putting us ashore to explore Fingal's Cave. We saw plenty seals, gannets and cormorants but little else. No dolphins, whales or orca. But there were beautiful views of the Mull coastline and deserted Treshnish Isles. Scotland has over 900 islands, though the exact number can vary slightly depending on how you define an island (some small tidal islets may or may not be counted). Of these 90-100 are inhabited
Located on the small Hebridean island of Staffa, Fingal's Cave is one of the country's most spectacular natural wonders. Formed entirely out of enormous hexagonal basalt columns, this sea cave is the backdrop of a fascinating legend.
When you visit Staffa, you can’t fail but be awestruck by nature’s creative forces. Impossibly dramatic and romantic, Staffa is best known for its basalt columns and spectacular sea caves. The most famous of these is Fingal’s Cave, also known in Gaelic as An Uamh Binn or the Cave of Music, immortalised by Mendelssohn in his Hebrides Overture. This name reflects the cave's exceptional acoustics and the sounds created by the crashing waves within.
Staffa is a volcanic island and the basalt columns formed when a single lava flow cooled around 60 million years ago. As the molten rock solidified, it also shrank, allowing gaps to form, which created the hexagonal-shaped columns seen today, similar to those found at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland.
In addition to the cave, the columns form a dramatic cliff face which appears as colonnades or, as the Vikings saw them, the poles or staves (stafr in Old Norse) used in their buildings, hence the name Staffa. The columns are canted over at an angle of four degrees and it was this tilting that happened after they were formed, which allowed the sea to exploit natural fissures in the rock, hollowing out the cave over the millennia. Other caves on the island formed in a different way, when a softer layer of ash under the basalt columns was eroded by the sea.
Funnily enough, it wasn't Fingal who lived in this cave but his rival Scottish nemesis, Benandonner! Fionn MacCumhaill’s was a hero in Irish mythology and although a big lad, not a true giant. Separated by the Irish sea, however, Fingal felt brave enough to hurl insults over the sea to his rival, the giant Benandonner...
When the fight escalated, Fionn built the causeway across the sea to confront Benandonner. But when Fionn saw how enormous Benandonner was, he fled back to Ireland, destroying the causeway behind him. The remnants became the Giant’s Causeway and Fingal’s Cave, which is said to have been named after Fionn’s Scottish alias, Fingal, meaning ‘white stranger’.
It was the famous botanist, Joseph Banks, who, in 1772, first brought the feature to popular attention. Since then, a steady stream of visitors, including a list of famous names from the arts, have made a sort of pilgrimage to this ‘cathedral of the sea’.
Among those great artists was a young Felix Mendelssohn, who visited the cave in 1829. Duly inspired, Mendelssohn wrote the concert overture Die Hebriden, also known simply as Fingal’s Cave, which he finished in 1832. Coincidentally, JMW Turner’s painting “Staffa” was also first exhibited in the spring of the same year. Today, Mendelssohn on Mull, a Scottish chamber music festival, continues to draw inspiration from Staffa. The event brings together young musicians for a week of musical exploration and concerts inspired by the wild beauty of Staffa, Mull and Iona.
Little Bear just completed the puzzle and is so happy, putting that last piece in was always the best.
My other hobby is designing and making clothes.
I do "Red fabric project" when I feel like ;)...
You can see the whole project here: www.flickr.com/photos/47583669@N08/sets/72157624536606749...
Looking south from A86 near Tulloch, Highlands, Scotland
One of two images I took as I was travelling between Stirling and Skye. I couldn't stop myself pulling over and putting the 70-200 on to zoom in on both scenes.
For this one I liked the way the cloud was flowing and covering/uncovering parts of the scene. very atmospheric!
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.
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Putting precious moments on a chip or a disk and forgetting about them until years later
At least - hopefully they aren't hidden forever....
"Oh, do you remember
How young we were
How happy we were
I was so in love with you"
Good thing we can forget the roughest times, but we do learn from them, more than we do from the good times
A contrast between light, dark and misty. The background was muted just enough to keep the yellow tree on the edge of the lake as the main feature. The manicured grass is part of the 9 hole pitch and putt golf course at the Inn on the Lake hotel.
Yes I know there's a builders van in the middle of the photo.......!
I was putting a calendar together for my Dad, (if you've never picked twelve of your best shots for a year try it, it'll drive you crazy) and I had to reprocess all of them because my file sizes were too small so as I combed through the originals I came across this. It made the calendar. :-)
Photo is of the nearly dry Alder Lake taken from the spot where the town of the same name once existed until 1944 when the dam of the same name flooded it. The church and town hall were moved, but there are still a couple foundations around there that show up when the lake runs low.
Red-crested Pochard are rather spectacular ducks and we are lucky to have a small breeding population nearby. On Sunday there were 5 drakes and 2 ducks putting on a show in the sunshine - more in comments.
Scultura di Benedetto Civiletti
Giardino Inglese - Palermo (IT)
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Simulazione pellicola: Fujifilm Classic Chrome personalizzata in-camera.
Film simulation: in-camera customized Classic Chrome
No post processing external to camera except watermark.
This scene is not real. I was just enjoying putting together parts of six different photos I had from Port Townsend’s Wooden Boat Festivals. This was done with photoshop using selections and cut and paste and no use of AI. The Pirate flag came from Wind Spirit which is a boat that entertains the kids.
CP/D&H intermodal train 557’s power puts its train together at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The train is under the Walt Whitman Bridge, which carries Interstate 76 over the Delaware River, linking Pennsylvania and New Jersey.