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Ok... :) Since we are still under a coat of Winter white here. I thought I'd post a shot I took a few years back to represent Spring!
I did however hear a rumor that Spring was just around the corner for us in the North. We wait with bated breath LOL :-D
Kostanjevica na Krki, Slovenia's smallest town and one of the oldest, is a veritable wonder of nature. The "na Krki" ("on the Krka") part of its name is extremely apt, since the old part of the town is actually situated on an island in a bend of the river Krka, at the foot of the Gorjanci Hills.
Taken at Bunratty folk museum, Near Limerick Ireland.
Texture's & Effect's by William Walton & Topaz.
Since 1968, SDSU's Astronomy Department has owned Mount Laguna Observatory (MLO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by San Diego State University (SDSU)
A lovely and very cute Red Squirrel posing to my camera :)
My brother loved Red Squirrels very much.
I took these photos in his memory.
Today it's has been four years since he tragically passed away in a motor vehicle accident.
I learned the love towards the Earth in fact from him.
THANK YOU SO MUCH DEAR FLICKR FRIENDS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FOR YOUR SO KIND MESSAGES!!!!!
Since I am travelling I cannot respond to comments, sorry.
It simply takes too long with weak internet
Since the nesting site of Larus crassirostris was so crowded, a chick came out to a road. Its parent had to feed it along roadside. In Teuri Island, Hokkaido, Japan.
道に出てしまったヒナにエサを与えるウミネコです。
Memories from the past.
It’s been 12 years since I encountered these ladies in Lhasa, Tibet and yet this photo still warms my heart. I found the Tibetans to be a friendly and helpful people, as are most of the folks I have met on my travels.
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Tibet:
The Tibetan people are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet. Their current population is estimated to be around 6.7 million. In addition to the majority living in Tibet Autonomous Region of China, significant numbers of Tibetans live in the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan, as well as in India, Nepal, and Bhutan.
Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining.
At an altitude of 3,656 meters (11,990 ft), Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world. The city has been the religious and administrative capital of Tibet since the mid-17th century. It contains many culturally significant Tibetan Buddhist sites such as the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka Palaces.
Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 5,000 m (16,000 ft) Located in the Himalayas, the highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain, rising 8,848 m (29,029 ft) above sea level.
Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, lies on the Lhasa River's north bank in a valley of the Himalayas. Rising atop Red Mountain at an altitude of 3,700 m, the red-and-white Potala Palace once served as the winter home of the Dalai Lama. The palace’s rooms, numbering around 1,000, include the Dalai Lama’s living quarters, as well as murals, chapels and tombs.
(Canon PowerShot SD4000, 1/200 @ f/2.0, ISO 125, edited to taste)
...... since the moment is your life
Dunnottar Castle on the east coast of Scotland in quite a special light
Genieße den Augenblick......
...... denn der Augenblick ist dein Leben
Dunnottar Castle an der Ostküste Schottlands in einem ganz besonderen Licht
Since 2 years now I moved away from Adobe Ransonware, I am wondering if I should go back. Sometime I feel On1 is not rendering image like LR/PS was doing. For now I save 16$ a month for 2 years. May be I should do a trial an see where LR/PS are now, I still can use ON1 as a addon.
Not sure if LR has now the luminosity mask like ON1.
It's been such a long time since we've had a genuine pea soup fog around here and on Sunday we were blanketed all day. I was finally persuaded to get my camera out of the bag after almost a year and it was the thick fog that did it.
I know many people like cemeteries for different reasons. I like them because they demonstrate an important and inevitable aspect of the life cycle. It's also because reading the inscriptions makes me wonder about what made up the life of the one who has shuffled off this mortal coil.
Graveyards are generally peaceful places and deliberately designed to be so. The fog seemed to emphasize that peace as well as a kind of timelessness, so there, in the quiet, I couldn't help but think while the people buried there may have finished with this life they are certainly busy in their next one--another part of the cycle.
Thus, the great hope: life goes on.
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Since so many recognized my referenc eto the Band a flock of Seagulls on a recent shot thought I would use this shot to refer to one of there well known songs, This Gulls seems to have ran fron the flock
Comments appreciated, Constructive critique even more appreciated, best way for me to learn
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It's been a while since I posted a lighthouse photo, and I do have a few more that I feel are worth sharing. This is the Cape Neddick Light, also known as Nubble Light or just the Nubble. Built in 1879, it is located on Nubble island which is just 90 meters off Cape Neddick Point, in Southern Maine. The lighthouse is only 12 meters high but because it sits on top of a steep rocky island, the light is actually 27 meters above sea level. The Nubble is a famous American icon and as such, a picture of it among with pictures from other prominent man made structures (like the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China) was carried by the Voyager Spacecraft, should it fall into the hands of intelligent extraterrestrials. Only the lighthouse keeper has access to the island and as you can imagine the small park at the tip of the cape right across from the lighthouse is almost always crowded with people enjoying the view of this beautiful structure and the rugged shoreline.
Apollo 440 - The machine in the ghost
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♫♪♫ ... Oh, I'm a wreck without you here
Yeah, I'm a wreck since you've been gone
I've tried to put this all behind me
I think I was wrecked all along
Yeah, I'm a wreck ... ♪♫♫
It's been a hot minute since I've uploaded something to my YouTube channel, but I hereby happily present my first vlog of 2018. Grab some popcorn and enjoy <3
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One of the difficulties encountered since discovering textures is that almost every photo appears to me aesthetically improved with the application(s). This bothers me somewhat. My first several years on Flickr were exclusively SOOC, and while I have by no means become a processing pro, I have learned enough to adjust both my thinking and my preferences for what I'm doing. Today, it takes a conscious decision to AVOID going to my texture file.
Here, the original photo is shown in comments and I was quite pleased with it SOOC...but then the thinking started, and the result is shown in the featured image. It started with, "Hmmm...I've got a sun that will fit nicely in that notch in the treeline." Many of you know the feeling. This one was admittedly a difficult decision (not all are) and I remain uncertain as to my personal preference in this particular case. What has become clear is that I certainly cannot consider myself a "purist" any longer...whatever that means...if anything and if it ever did.
It's been months now since the last time I saw another living soul, I still don't know where they all went, or what happened to them, but I've now grown to accept that I really am alone here. Did I step into some sort of portal that day in the staircase? Did I glitch out of the world everyone else is living in? Am I in what remains of another universe, or am I in the same world but for some reason unable to interact or even see any of the people living in it? Why do I keep finding evidence of people coming and going, objects moved, places disturbed, but never see the people themselves? Am I living here with spirits, or have I just completely lost my mind?
Or, am I really not alone here?
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Since lockdown Niqui has discovered crochet, and is loving it, especially with these colourful yarns!!
Been awhile since I posted a monochrome image. Sometimes b/w works as good or better than technicolor presentations.
My long-exposure capture of Montana's Ousel Falls captured the mist trail nicely as it floated downstream. Truly an enchanting waterfall.
Enjoy a wonderful Tuesday!
Since the bushfires started, I am seeing new birds in my yard. Birds are smart, they know where free food can be had, even if it's not what they would normally eat. Among them are Lorikeets and honey eaters. They can get a drink in my yard and will take whatever I put out for them. Fresh fruit will be added to the menu.
I fear many brds will die of starvation in the weeks ahead, all the flowering trees and so many insects will have perished, and there will be nothing for the birds to eat.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Since I was not able to hike this weekend and the weather is stormy today, I thought I would post a sunset from a couple months ago.
[**Note: I did not enhance or change the colors in these photos at all - everything really was pink!]
As someone who has been obsessed with sunsets since I was a child, I have watched some untold number of them over the years, and photographed many. But once in awhile there still comes a sunset that is like nothing I have seen before. This remarkable evening in Cannon Beach this summer was one of those.
As mentioned in the previously posted “Golden Gift”, the last day there was foggy and I wasn’t sure if there would be a sunset to see, but late in the afternoon some rays of sunshine broke through the clouds and turned everything to gold.
The clouds returned after that golden moment, but as it approached the time for sunset, something extraordinary happened. The sun turned pink! And then the sky and waves did too. I was completely transfixed by the jaw-dropping sight of it all. It was so striking that I’m posting multiple images because it feels like the only way to really convey the entirety of the moment.
And like the physical light of a sublime sunset that suddenly bursts through the clouds, sometimes a similar metaphorical light appears in one’s life. Perchance in the form of an unexpected friendship that one didn’t know was needed, but has now become a cherished gift. A friendship that illuminates the shadows to which one had grown so accustomed that their presence was no longer noticed. As one’s eyes adjust to the dark when light fades and dusk falls, so it happens with life as well. Until a friend, perhaps unknowingly on their part, extends the steady glow of warmth and light that sparks a heartfelt song of luminescent joy.
So this post is dedicated, with much gratitude, to that special glow of incandescent friends :-)
It seems incredible, but today is two years since we took this picture in Algonquin Provincial Park, in one of the numerous curves of the main road (route60), surrounded by beautiful colors of an Autumn that flooded everything.
Two years have passed, and not exactly good. This was our last trip to see the colors of Autumn before the pandemic burst and changed our way of life, our habits and our customs.
I remember it as if it was yesterday, and the emotion fills me.
I hope to be able to see the magic of Autumn again very soon in person and to feel again the incomparable emotions that I have always felt when I saw the vibrant colors of my favorite season of the year.
Press "L" to enlarge the picture.
I wish you a nice new week and all the best to you!
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Curva colorida, Parque Provincial de Algonquin, Ontario, Canadá
Parece increíble, pero hoy se cumplen dos años desde que hicimos esta foto en el Parque Provincial Algonquin, en una de las numerosas curvas de la carretera principal (ruta 60), rodeados de hermosos colores de un Otoño que lo inundó todo.
Han pasado dos años, y no exactamente buenos. Este fue nuestro último viaje para ver los colores del otoño antes de que la pandemia estallara y cambiara nuestra forma de vida, nuestros hábitos y nuestras costumbres.
Lo recuerdo como si fuera ayer, y la emoción me embarga.
Espero poder volver a ver la magia del otoño muy pronto en persona y volver a sentir las incomparables emociones que siempre he sentido al ver los colores vibrantes de mi estación favorita del año.
Presiona "L" para ampliar la imagen.
¡Te deseo una buena semana nueva y todo lo mejor para ti!
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Unlike the orange-crowned warbler that can easily hide its orange crown, the golden-crowned kinglet's golden crown is always on full display. This golden-crowned kinglet is catching gnats and no-see-ums in the wooded grove that acts like a little oasis for migrating songbirds in the open prairie habitat around here. After spending the summer in Canada's vast boreal forest, these hardy golden-crowned kinglets sometimes winter right here in Winneshiek County since they can survive temperatures to -40 F even though they are barely bigger than a hummingbird.
I was going back through my bug photos from last year, looking for a good one to add tonight since there's not much new happening out in nature right now here in the local area, when I came across this photo of a white-tailed deer fawn that I found out in the forest last spring while photographing insects. I'd forgotten that I even took the photo since I download all my bug photos into special files and wait until winter to look at them and then try to figure out what I found. I'm positive that I photographed this fawn that stood up at my feet with a macro lens
Since everyone is busy at the same time and has a lot to do,
it is extremely important to travel away from
it all to reflect at a distance on our actual situation in the present and to interpret the secret laws
that rule our lives.
Dear contemporaries, my song wants to emphasize that the world needs
someone who lives on an island in a cave and watches and
listens
to the limits of existence, a spiritual spy,
an outpost in no man's land! The lone man on Salami's island by Hjalmar Gullberg © www.ludwigriml.com
Since taking the challenge of learning a bit about high key for macro Mondays I think it will be a good idea to learn more about low key as well. I believe this image qualifies as a low key shot. However, it does not count as learning about low key, it was an accident :) The flower was highlighted by the sun and there were deep shadows all around it.
I'm not really sure what I would use low key images for on a regular basis but the high key images will be handy when I have something to sell.
Regardless, I never want to stop learning, even if it is just for the sake of learning.
Have a wonderful day and happy snapping.
Since taking over the reins of Album of the month, old Lord Fellsider has let his farm fall to pieces as he flicks through his extensive collection of Jazz albums.
Rhinoceros: since 1973 the population has recovered well and increased to 544 animals around the turn of the century. To ensure the survival of the endangered species in case of epidemics animals are translocated annually from Chitwan to the Bardia National Park and the Sukla Phanta Wildlife Reserve since 1986. However, the population has repeatedly been jeopardized by poaching: in 2002 alone, poachers killed 37 individuals in order to saw off and sell their valuable horns.[6] Chitwan has the largest population of Indian rhinoceros in Nepal, estimated at 605 individuals out of 645 in total in the country.
Der Park ist bekannt für die Population des Panzernashorns, die bis zur Jahrtausendwende auf 544 Tiere und bis zum Frühjahr 2015 auf 645 Nashörner[6] angewachsen war. Seit 1986 werden alljährlich Tiere von Chitwan in den Bardia-Nationalpark und in das Suklaphanta-Wildreservat übersiedelt. Die Population war aber immer wieder durch Wilderei stark gefährdet: allein im Jahre 2002 haben Wilderer 37 Tiere grausam getötet, um das kostbare Horn absägen und verkaufen zu können. Die letzte Zählung im Jahr 2011 ergab insgesamt 503 Nashörner im Park, im selben Zeitraum starben zwei Tiere durch Wilderer. Bei der Zählung im Frühjahr 2015 wurden 645 Tiere in Nepal gefunden[6], davon 605 im Chitwan-Nationalpark[8], während gleichzeitig in den letzten drei Jahren kein Tier durch Wilderer ums Leben kam.
Since childhood, animals have trusted and befriended me, especially hummingbirds. People say I am an animal whisperer.
Other than adding texture and playing with the colors this image is SOOC.
I uploaded a hummingbird video after this photo, please enjoy!
Since my first posting got bumped off (it's an adage so not really a product- see the first comment box), here's my second choice possibility for the Macro Mondays group’s theme of medical for May 23. The inspiration for this came from my DD!
The MM magnetic tiles together are about 6cm-- i post a size verification picture later.
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Ever since 1853 the so-called Waterleidingduinen south of Zandvoort aan Zee have provided Amsterdam with clean and fresh drinking water. It's a large nature reserve and protected water harvesting area. But an inexpensive permit will allow you to walk here to admire its beauties. See also my www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/41910319222/in/photoli....
Under a sullen sky that's exactly what I did.
Here's a pleasant natural landscape with a herd of Fallow Deer beginning their crossing towards the dunes which slide into the North Sea a few kilometers to the right (west).
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Since the love that you left is all that I get
I want you to know
That if I can't be close to you
I'll settle for the ghost of you
I miss you more than life.
And if you can't be next to me
Your memory is ecstasy
I miss you more than life
Happy birthday to my star in the heaven. Bless me and hug me as always.
My grandma's birthday. Hope to see you again someday.
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It's been over a year since frost first appeared.
This is one of the pictures I took on the first day I used my new camera. At dawn, I went to a lake to see sunrise. Steam was coming off of the surface of the lake. Frost formed across the field surrounding the lake. Then I went to a nature park for hiking. The frost didn't melt for a while. In this picture, you see yellow foliage, a metal fence, and a frosty lawn in the background. My fingers and feet were numb with cold. I couldn't help going ahead because the frosty sight was beautiful under sunshine.
P.S., This picture was taken on the second weekend of October instead of November. I had my camera mistakenly set the date for a month during the first few weeks of use.
Since I discovered a place close to my home where kingfishers have their nest I regularly go back to see what is going on.
Here at the end of the day I was lucky to see this kingfisher flying towards me and sitting in a tree for a while, while the light was perfect.
Very soon their eggs will hatch and I can't wait for that to happen, There will be a lot of flying with fish!