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Fiero e soddisfatto passeggiavi, l’ordinaria meta era ormai vicina. musica nuova nelle orecchie, testa alta e sorriso stampato.
Vedi lei.
La distingui, ha uno sguardo vivo, consapevole, sereno; ti ferma.
“What’s your name?”
rispondi confuso, togliendoti le cuffie: Lei ti affascina, vuoi scoprire cosa vuole.
“Which music are u listening?” - “BeatleSs” – “Sing for me” – “Oh no, I’m not really good” –
Ti guarda e sorride, mai avevi incontrato uno sguardo così vivo; rimani lì imbambolato a non capire.
“Come at home with me” – “Oh no tank, I have to go”
“Non hai mai vissuto per la strada vero? Si vede”
te ne stavi andando ma ti giri e la guardi, e lei risponde con uno sguardo
e poi
“Provaci e capirai!”
Ti volti e rivolti un paio di volte, sei basito, non comprendi, non sai che fare; finirai per andare via.
Non sai cosa sia successo, non capisci come una persona possa aver avuto un simile comportamento nei tuoi riguardi; una persona diversa, fuori dal mondo e magari anche fuori di testa ma che qualcosa ti ha trasmesso, e qualcosa di forte che anche se non sai proprio cos’è ti rimane dentro.
E ti chiedi cosa sia e se esista la pazzia, se la pazza è lei o sono loro, se dovresti ascoltarla e tornare indietro oppure continuare per la tua sconosciuta ma prevedibile strada.
really an “intimate photo” from my vacation, the photo was taken at 90° Celsius or 194° Fahrenheit in one of my favorite saunas ... which was not easy to create ... but I wanted to show what beautiful places there are that warm your heart ... ;-) ...
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THANKS for viewing my photos, I really appreciate you taking the time, and for the faves and comments you make THANK YOU..
I don't think I would have seen the moth if it hadn't flown onto the stick right in front of me.... Best ID guess from my flickr friends is Celery Leaftier - Udea rubigalis. Any further ID confirmation or correction would be appreciated.
Some info: bugguide.net/node/view/9721
I've been running late today, really late. Will catch up tomorrow. Meanwhile, this was on the "upload list," and it will be a semicolon in a string of avian photos. I found him and six of his friends scampering and chirping on and around two boulders near the HQ at Sequoia NP. This one just happened to find something to eat, stopped, and for at least 20 seconds, ate. On a 24" monitor, it may appear life size, not exactly my first intent.
The golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) is a ground squirrel native to western North America. It is distributed in British Columbia and Alberta through the western United States to California, Arizona, and New Mexico. This species occurs in forests, chaparral, meadow margins, and sagebrush, especially in areas with many rocks or forest litter that provides shelter. It is associated with many kinds of coniferous trees, aspen, and manzanita, and it is a manzanita bud that this little guy is munching.
Most adults are independent, rarely cooperating, and usually competing for resources. They may assemble at sites with abundant food but develop a group hierarchy. Adults reside alone in burrows, creating nests for hibernation or rearing of young. his species becomes vocal when it feels threatened, making squeaking noises or growling. However, it is generally not a very vocal species.
It may carry the Rocky Mountain wood tick, a vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other diseases. There is no mention of the effect that the Western Fence Lizard has against those diseases, but I don't think the lizard is found at 5-8,000 feet.
You know when you feel really miserable but you don’t know why, and you’re having one of those days when just about everything gets on your nerves? Maybe it’s because I spent half the morning on the phone to Sky having to upgrade my wifi and Sky box, grrrr. And maybe it’s the menopause and I’m just a grumpy cow these days. 🤔 But then you take your dog for a walk and you come home feeling really happy and like everything in the world is rosy again. That!
It’s really hard to be miserable for long when you own a Weimaraner.
Really a morning to rejoice, quietly watching the birds and in the middle of the polder, what more do people want ?
Am trying to comment, but the flickr gods aren't cooperating.
I've missed you all
I've had a chance to reflect. I have to spend time researching for and pulling together stories, all of which I want to feature on flickr. There are also a number of other projects I've been putting off for the eighteen months that I've been on flickr. I need to get some balance going here. All this means that, for the foreseeable future, I will be up on flickr every two or three days rather than every day as I have been to date. Many of my flickr buddies have curbed their flickr activities, and some have even dropped off flickr for reasons similar to mine.
Flickr is an addictive business. It has a tendency to take over, and Explore really drives the addiction. Explore is like heroin in that it stokes us for a period of time by including everything we post, only to drop us us for periods of time during which we try everything to regain the old Explore high.
Not trying to be resentful or maudlin here. Just trying to put flickr into perspective. I'll still get around to see you all on a regular basis, and I promise to pull some good stories together. Thanks for being great buddies. You've all become an important part of my life. You teach me so much, and I'll still be part of this great community.
Feel free to email me directly at any time. I'm around a lot.
On a rainy evening, the "Popradské Pleso" lake in the Tatras mountains, Slovakia.
This shot was taken with a mobile phone, as my camera broke down at the very beginning of this trip. I locked the ISO setting of the phone to 100 ISO to try to get as much as possible out of the camera phone, and then resorted to post-processing to try to get a quality image.
For post-processing, I used darktable. I used non-local means denoising, and adjusted the tone curves to have a strong highlight in the center of the image. I use both the equalizer filter (in clarity mode) and the local contrast filter, with masks selecting the center of the image, to increase the contrast gradually toward the center. My goal was to make more visible the different layers of mountains.
Then, I worked a lot on the lower part of the image, the lake, to enhance the highlights in the reflection. For this, I started with a strong modification of the tone curves. However, this created a lot of noise as the sensor of the phone is not too good in the shadows. To fight this noise, applied a set of filters only on the lower part of the image: I used a stronger non-local means that I combined with a wavelet-based denoising (using the "profiled" denoising filter of darktables) as these have different types of artifacts. To cancel out the artifacts, I added to these a low-pass filter that smooths out the image. On top of this, I added artificial grain, to restore the grain of the image destroyed while smoothing.
Finally, I worked a bit on the clouds. I wanted to crop the top of the image, in order to focus more on the horizon line, but I was interested in the shapes of the cloud. So I used a liquify filter to warp these clouds down. Last, in a minor and classic trick, I created a vignetting-like effect by making the top and left clouds darker with a tone-curve filter.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for choosing my picture as the cover of the group! I feel very very honored, huge hugs 💙💋
These last two shots really had to be in monochrome. I did think about reducing the saturation levels so the barest colour appeared, but in the end I went for classic black and white. I wonder sometimes if some people today struggle with understanding what black and white photography is about. We live in a world of instant simulation, and it takes imagination and effort to "read" a black and white.
Ansel Adams once likened working in colour to be like playing an out of tune piano (Adams was a concert pianist before turning to photography).
'"I can get—for me—a far greater sense of ‘color' through a well-planned and executed black-and-white image than I have ever achieved with color photography," he wrote in 1967. For Adams, who could translate sunlight's blinding spectrum into binary code perhaps more acutely than anyone before or since, there was an "infinite scale of values" in monochrome. Color was mere reality, the lumpy world given for everyone to look at, before artists began the difficult and honorable job of trying to perfect it in shades of gray.' www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ansel-adams-in-color-...
I like that description. Mind you I recently purchased "Ansel Adams in Color" (Little, Brown and Company, 1993), and although there's not a lot of his colour slides left (most have deteriorated with time), what is in this collection is a real treasure.
Okay, I'm possessed of a horribly sick sense of humor, but when I discovered this sign, I could not help but conjure up a little scenario that goes something like this: "Higgins, we've got this very important assignment we wish to provide you with, and it's going to require some very creative thinking......"
Forgive me dear viewers.
Laccadives has not really achieved commercial levels in its tourism. One has to be thankful for the policies of the Indian government which prevents consumption of alcohol and presence of too many tourists, lack of fresh water and such. Not necessarily by design but it just happens to work like that.
In the developing world, wherever there are deep waters, obliging children act as divers and showmen to show off their prowess and eagerness and make some money. Laccadives was no different as the kids were having a blast hitting the cool emerald green waters at Agatti from a fishing vessel moored near the jetty.
Unlike other destinations, there was no obligatory solicitation by the participants, just pure fun.
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I really like high up views. Being able to see many miles in the distance as always appealed to me. I’m fortunate that I live in an area where it’s quite easy to access long distance views. This particular view isn’t that high but I would bet that anyone who comes here would be impressed, personally I think it’s a fantastic view, it never disappoints me.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for choosing my picture as the cover of the group! I feel very very honored 💙🌹
Kisses and hugs 💋🌹
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And it really happened! A Deltic on the Blyth and Tyne, hundreds flocked in the warm spring sunshine of a double bank holiday. Yes, a royal wedding too! We will take it all.
We sped along the spine road that shoots past Cramlington, Blyth and Bedlington. So many wait for the mornings first train on the over bridge by Freemans crossing. Its -The Shot- of the morning. We continue on, beyond Ashington to the Woodhorn curve, and then on a little more, towards the smelter. And stop there to check. Really?!! It is there but we can't see in. An unmistakable drone can be heard from within, the multi layered roaring drone from the triangular configuration of cylinders and their opposed pistons, six pistons in each back, eighteen to an engine. Thirty six if both engines were running but here they are not.
And so we return to Woodhorn and await. The dandelions are in first bloom, a low down viewpoint will accentuate this. There is no one else waiting here! And then she comes, roaring on one engine at low speed on the tight curve. A racehorse on a slow slog, so beautiful in the sun. Our days work is already done!
55022 Royal Scots Grey. Woodhorn curve, 6N51 morning empties from Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter to North Blyth. 27th of April 2011.
Minolta x300, 100mm f2.5 Rokkor. Fuji Provia 100, 1/250 @ f8-1/3.
We spent the morning of our last day in Chicago at the Shedd Aquarium. Had NO IDEA it was discount day for Illinois residents, but we were in and out before the crowds got bad.
Photographing jellies is about 10 times harder than I expected it would be. They move quickly and the light levels are very low. Oh, yeah, they are behind spotted glass, too!
This one is a little noisy (even when using noise reduction software), but I love the way the small bit of light hit the jelly.
Exposure 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture f/4.0
Focal Length 105 mm
ISO 5000
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"Winterset" 1973
Painting by Robert Addison (1924 - 1988)
Here is another painting in my ongoing series of presenting Robert Addison's paintings to all of you.
Barns, farms and rural scenes were some of Addison's favorite subjects. He chose them because he grew up with them and he was concerned that one day they would all be gone.
Kingston, Ontario Canada.
It looks like it might be a gyrfalcon gray morph.
In flight:
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I kept 15 pictures of it flying away from me, and it flew just above the ice the entire time.
I decided to take a ride on the ferry today. Hoping to see a Snowy hunting on the ice.I was quite surprised to see this young falcon sitting on the ice on the edge of the channel.
A raging creek at the bottom of the trail. It was nearly 75 degrees which is really warm for this time of year. It will be quite a contrast from what awaits us 2000 feet up!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for choosing my picture as the cover of the group! I feel very very honored, huge hugs 💙💋
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After a long, gruelling walk so Dad can self isolate Argyll style, Harris taking a little nap. On the sofa, of course.
Summer mornings can be really amazing, given the right conditions, but I am looking forward to crisp fall mornings, frost and fog.
Burnham Prairie
I really don't like explore. Sorry not sorry. It's the same thing as with the Daily Deviation back on deviantArt - with the difference, I only once ever achieved one of those. But the concept remains the same. First of all, it goes on my nerves how it causes a notification like every five minutes. Also, since it's per definition a picture that's a few days old already, it seems to drag attention away from more recent uploads. That part I really can't explain, but it happens all the time. Something gets explored and keeps popping my inbox, while the two or three newer uploads published since get barely anything, as if there was a connection somehow. Which is especially frustrating when they carry some writing I really wanted to get out there.
Also, Explore is little more than a hot thumbnail contest. If enough people click on it, it ends up getting explored. Only, if all the people then decide, it's not such a great picture at all, that doesn't get accounted for at all.
In short, I wish one could disable participation in that with a checkbox somewhere.
*Arcane Spellcaster* - Andy Dress
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Location: Quebec City
Someone found a bog on our hike. This is the pre-wash. Now who is going to clean my car? (He really stunk!).
I really enjoy taking macro images.
I first started with buying a cheap set of screw on lenses onto my standard efs 18-55mm lens. Then I moved onto extension tubes,reversing my lens and experimenting with cheap m42 mount lenses.
Eventually I knew that I really wanted a proper macro lens and I've had a lot of fun with it.
I was always looking for more magnification and eventually bought a Canon 1-5x macro lens. Although I wouldn't recommend this as a first macro lens as it's harder to use with no auto focus it is still my overall favourite lens of all.
I'm really active on Instagram now your welcome to check me out!
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