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Happy Bokeh Wednesday
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Mini break to Rileyville, Virginia with the beasts. Teddy and Echo are enjoying romping about in a nice big field, but we need to be mindful for deer (which we’ve seen) and bears (which we haven’t). They have pretty decent recall but some temptations are just too great.
Today I should have been staying with a couple of friends just outside Duisburg but unfortunately there was a COVID infection, so a bit of rearranging took place and now I'm in Bremen! Spotted this chap carrying a dog toy that looked on first glance like his folks' umbrella, bless him.
Do you spot the (official) photographer?
Today, a year ago, we were present at a party, to see the demolition of this building. It was the start for us to our new build appartment Blooming: blooming-oosterhout.nl/
Unfortunately my husband died at the end of last year, but I decided to go forward with this project if possible, because his oldest brother and sister in law also had bougt an appartment there.
Only recently, in May this year, the new build has started! It will take some time until it's ready, planned completion is at the end of 2026. In the mean time I just sold our house and in Octobre I will be moving to a temporarary sort of tiny house at a campsite.
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From my archives, March 2022!
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It is pretty obvious by now that, when the opportunity arises, I love to photograph abandoned, dilapidated or antique stuff. Buildings, cars, farm equipment etc., anything with some character appeals to me.
I came across this 1961 International Harvester panel truck and could not resist the urge to visit it at night and spend some time with it to listen to its stories of when it was young and strong, driving down the highways doing its duty, to its eventual demise and undignified end.
Maybe making an image of something like that is a way for me to come to grips with the fact that I too will pass.
I just hope that I won't be dumped in an arroyo....
This is the ruïn from a part of the tower, belonging to Castle van Strijen (1289), popularly named Slotbosse Toren. It was destroyed in the 16th century and never build up again. In those days it was surrounded by woods.
www.oosterhout.nl/toerisme/monumenten/de-ruine-van-het-ka...
Looks like the Autumn colours are making an early appearance this year.
Taken on a cycle from Callander to Brig o'Turk along the Great Trossachs Path with Ben Ledi shrouded in low cloud.
Sat outside, camera in hand, hoping for another hummingbird visit. There are at least two frequenting the feeder, but they have been a bit shy. Patience paid off with this young Ruby Throated hummingbird striking a pose.
Just a single plant has survived in my back garden, but I know it can proliferate!
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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, CA
May 2023
From Huntington.org:
Harriet Hosmer portrayed Zenobia, a 3rd-century queen of Palmyra (near present-day Syria), as a prisoner of the Roman Empire. Although defeated, the queen possesses a regal bearing and wears an elaborate court dress, complete with a diadem. Only the chain and the slight downward tilt of her head betray her status. Zenobia’s stoic mien is modeled upon the figures portrayed in ancient Greek sculptures, who remain expressionless regardless of pain or distress. In the legend, when Emperor Aurelian saw Zenobia’s dignity and beauty while shackled, he freed her. Hosmer conveyed the exact qualities that led to Zenobia’s pardon.
Hosmer carved Zenobia in 1859 and exhibited it in 1862 at the Great London Exposition, where Chauncey Butler Ives’s Pandora and work by William Wetmore Story were also on view. Some male critics doubted that Hosmer, a woman, had the skill to make such a monumental work, but her fellow American sculptors in Rome, notably Story, avered in the press that it was entirely by Hosmer.
I was inspired by another Flickr member to try and create abstract renderings of ordinary scenes,
This arrested water flow yielded some interesting patterns.
More and more I want to document the remnants of old Santa Fe. More and more the old Santa Fe is being erased and replaced with something modern, something just resembling the old building styles. (The historical review board has a keen eye on what you can and can't do)
Understandably, people don't want to live or do business in some building that hasn't been updated for a hundred years. But there is a certain loss of warmth and charm that follows all the remodeling and revamping,
Fortunately, there are still some relics left untouched and those are the ones I'm after.
For an assignement I had to make a photo in harsh black and white. To many stripes and/or to harsh B&W, what do you think?
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Happy Tree mendous Tuesday
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"Ekshärad Church was built between 1686-1688 and it is a timbered cruciform church with a shingle roof. There is a font from the 13th century, raredos and sacrament cabinet from the Middle Ages. On the organ loft you can see a series of funny portaits of kings. Ekshärad church is famous for its beautiful forged crosses of which the most are symbolising the tree of life."
Our last holiday together
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Teddy is posing for my new CAMERA. Yay for wonderful husband who got me exactly what I wanted. Sony A7C full frame compact camera - not much bigger than my a6300 and my first full frame! This one has animal eye focus - super feature as far as I am concerned. Echo has not been as willing to pose, so Teddy gets first share Now to dream about new what new lenses I will need 😎.