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Had a chance to take a bike ride to the Cape Canaveral Beach on Christmas day. I am looking for a very specific shot of the ocean coming in, I wasn't able to get what I wanted, however this gull was nice enough to come visit with me for a while.
I got this feeling he was trying to tell me that this was his beach and I should just back off.
Zakrzówek, Kraków, Lesser Poland, Poland
CAUTION! SIGNIFICANTLY THREATENED BY CLIMATE CHANGE
IUCN Red List Europe and World - NEAR THREATENED
I was stunned, when i spotted about 40 individuals feeding on hawthorn fruits. I've never seen this species before. It was the only opportunity for me to photograph Redwings. Those thrushes breed in northern parts of Eurasia and they show up in Central Europe only during winter. There is a tiny invasion in my neighborhood, Redwings are mixed with Blackbirds and Fieldfares, feeding constantly, trying to survive severe cold.
I invite you to check my album page where I prepared sections with photos from specific locations.
Cedar waxwing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) is a member of the family Bombycillidae or waxwing family of passerine birds. It is a medium-sized, mostly brown, gray, and yellow bird named for its wax-like wing tips. It is a native of North and Central America, breeding in open wooded areas in southern Canada and wintering in the southern half of the United States, Central America, and the far northwest of South America. Its diet includes cedar cones, fruit, and insects.[2] The cedar waxwing is not endangered.
The genus name Bombycilla comes from the Ancient Greek bombux, "silk" and the Modern Latin cilla, "tail";[3] this is a direct translation of the German Seidenschwanz, "silk-tail", and refers to the silky-soft plumage of these birds.[4] The specific cedrorum is Latin for "of the cedars".[3]
Here is a not very good photo of the Five-Storied Pagoda of Sensoji Temple (showing four stories only), one of the most famous in Japan.
In 942, Taira-no-Kinmasa built the Five-storied Pagoda and the Main Hall of Senso-ji Temple. The pagoda met with destruction and fire several times during its history and burned to the ground in World War II. It was rebuilt in 1973 with a steel frame and reinforced concrete and is now 48m high (53m from the ground up). Relics of the Buddha received from Sri Lanka in 1966 are enshrined on the top floor.
Senso-ji:
Early in the morning on March 18, 628, when the capital of Japan was in Asuka, in what is now a part of Nara Prefecture, Hinokuma Hamanari and his brother Takenari were fishing in the Sumida River. Bringing in their net, they were surprised to see that it held one statue . When Haji no Nakatomo, village headman of what is now Asakusa, realized what they had was a statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva (Sho Kanzeon Bosatsu),Kannon called usually.he devoted himself to Buddhism. He remade his house into a temple soon and devoted the rest of his life to worship and holding memorial services for this Kannon.
In 645, a Buddhist priest named Shokai came to this region and built a hall for the Kannon. Following a revelation he received in a dream, Shokai decided to hide the statue from view. Since that time, it has remained never unveiled.
Asakusa at the time was a small fishing village located in an estuary of Tokyo Bay in the vast wilderness of the area known as Musashino. It grew and flourished as people arrived in increasing numbers to worship. When Ennin (794-864), head priest of Enryaku-ji (the main temple of the Tendai School of Buddhism) visited Senso-ji in the mid-ninth century, he created a statue identical to the main image (absolutely Hibutsu) so that it could be shown rarely to the public.
During the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), the Shoguns demonstrated great devotion to Senso-ji. Gradually, other prominent figures, including military leaders and literati, followed their example, and the temple’s importance increased. In 1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa Shogun, designated Senso-ji as the temple where prayers of the shogunate would be offered. After that the successive Tokugawa Shoguns had often visited Senso-ji and the belief in Kannnon of the Senso-ji had spread among common people during the Edo Period(1603-1867).
As from the end of the 18th century through the 19th century Edo city developed into the largest population city in the world , the culture specific to Edo flowered and Asakusa had become the cultural center in Edo.
In the modern times Asakusa has been the popular culture center such as theater,movie,music and vaudeville.
Senso-ji is the oldest temple in Tokyo and also called Asakusa Kannon because it houses the Kannon, It is known throughout Japan. This important center of worship draws 30 million visitors every year.
Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo
I am investing a great part of my domestic quarantine in rummaging through my archives to unearth some forgotten, hopefully worthwhile shot to process. When this bracketing resurfaced from a stray nook of my hard disk, it struck some chords deep in my soul (most assuredly my brain was somehow performing an on-the-fly processing of those rather flattish, unassuming untouched RAW files). For a fleeting, precious moment I felt strongly the heartwarming sensation to be free to hug and cuddle again my wife, Laura, albeit at some indefinite time when Covid-19 will allow us to relish such an invaluable moment. Please do not ask me why on Earth this specific scene stirred this specific emotion inside me, so I will not be forced to admit that I have not the faintest idea. Rather, allow yourself the freedom to feel whatever emotion this scene will stir in your soul. I have got my own gift. I hope that this picture will gift you with the emotion you need most.
This picture comes from a sunrise session at the beautiful meanders of the river Adda, just a handful kilometers downstream the Eastern arm of Lake Como, dating from April 2016. That morning I arrived at the location a lot earlier than the earliest hints of dawn, so I took shooting the river by night - admittedly a whole bunch of utterly worthless bracketings, at least until proven otherwise (never say never). And I did a thing I do only in exceedingly rare occasions: I raised my sensor gain to a maddening 640 ISO. Of course, being used to shoot at a constant 100 ISO, I foolishly forgot to restore the usual setting as the light was growing and took my precious exposure bracketings at such high ISO till 8:00 AM. As a result of this sloppy attitude I had to fight a monster amount of chroma noise (I viscerally hate it)*. I found no way to get decently rid of that noise by using the rich armoury of denoising tools offered by Darktable - quite possibly because of my qualified failure to set them properly in such a demanding situation. Luckily, by mere trial and error, I got an almost decent denoising using DFine 2 and blending the denoised images with the original ones by the LCh Lightness mode (hope that my memory is not deceiving me); this, rather suprisingly, allowed me to retain most of the details while taking the greatest possible advantage of the denoising itself.
Incidentally, this picture has a closely related fellow image in my photostream, Awakenings: the same location, the same morning, just taken some 10 minutes after this one, some 20 meters downstream - ah, and one of the handful of bracketings of that session taken at 100 ISO, after I realized my mistake ;-)
* I am afraid I am being a bit unfair here, because the worthy sensor of my Nikon D5100 is quite less noisy than those of many other APS-x sensor cameras (and the in-camera management of thermal noise on long exposures is really good). The problem is, the less light you get from your subject, the more noise you get in the sensor data, the ISO gain magnifying an unfavourable signal-to-noise ratio. Of course an early, partly cloudy morning shooting session neatly falls into that sort of context.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and a selective bit of Orton effect as a final garnish to get the desired ambiance. RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising has been a vexing issue; I got the best results by courtesy of good old DFine 2 and the Gimp.
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Presumably, terns target a specific fish when they initiate their dive but their success rate is somewhat lower than their Osprey counterparts at less than 50%. This bird (from the previous post) emerged from the water with an empty beak on Horsepen Bayou.
The fledged young barnswallows are quite capable of flying and fend for them selfs but still like to get that extra mouth-stuffer.
Poole wetland. St.Albert, AB.
There's no specific blog post for this photo, so here are your credits!
Body: Maitreya
Head, LAQ Gaia Bento Mesh Head
Skin: The Plastik, Elvenne Skin, Sunshula
Hair: Magika, Solace
Makeup: Alaskametro, Black Magic
Eyebrows: Queen of Ink, Definite Eyebrows
Ears: Swallow, Pixie Ears
Eyes: Arte, Galaxy Eyes
Tank Top: Goth1c0, Kath Loose Dress, Goth (At Trick Or Treat Lane)
Trousers: The Annex, Rae Skinny Pants, Orange Tartan (for Spookzilla)
Boots: Sweet Lies, Ragnarok Boots
Environment:
Backdrop: WeArH0uSE, Platform
Trolley: WeArH0uSE, Harry Props
Owl: Hextraordinary, Snowy Owl
Pose: Infiniti, Blowing Smoke
The waterfalls Hraunfossar (Lava Falls) and Barnafoss (Children´s Falls) are beautiful and unusual natural phenomena. A large number of travellers make a specific point of visiting these natural treasures. The Hraunfossar (or Lava Falls) are clear, cold springs that well up through the lava and run in falls and rapids into the Hvítá River. Barnafoss has been evolving through recorded history, as the river has dug itself down through the lava and runs in a deep and narrow ravine. There used to be a stone arch spanning the river, forming a link between the districts of Hálsasveit and Hvítársíða.
The following story relates the reason for the name "Barnafoss" (Children's Falls):
"Once there lived a widow on the farm Hraunás. She was well off and among her possessions was the farm Norðurreykir in Hálsasveit. She had two children. They were quite young when this story took place. There came a time when evening services were to be held at Christmas at Gilsbakki. The Mistress of Hraunsás and all her folk, except the children, attended the service. The children were told to stay at home and play. The moon was shining and the weather was fine. When the people came home the children had disappeared. Their footsteps led to the stone arch over the river. Their mother had the arch destroyed, saying that no man would ever be allowed to cross the falls alive. She later donated to the Church at Reykholt the farm Norðurreykir, in memory of her children." (Kristleifur Þorsteinsson II (1972) Hvítá.276)
Cited from:
www.husafell.is/ensku_sidurnar/e_nagrenni/e_hraunfossar/e...
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Apart from specific calls to advertise, and specific things of interest i am on permanent hiatus from Second Life blogging, Second Life in general. 2020 wasn't very kind, and the culture of SL is LITERALLY just becoming even more toxic as the days go by. In order to save myself the hassle i'm just cutting ties and walking off.
Het specifieke tweeluik is geselecteerd voor de tentoonstelling MAAK-de kunst van vrijetijdsmakers. in museum Arnhem.
Kenmerken kunstwerk.
Techniek: Het betreft een zeer gedetailleerde drie demensionale textiel sculptuur.
Materalen: er is gebruik gemaakt van diverse opgebouwde lagen, structuren en verschillende soorten rode garens, stoffen en textiele objecten.
Stijl: Een monochrome organische compositie waarin diepte en textuur centraal staan.
Deze foto is door mijn echtgenoot Ronald van Ooijen gemaakt.
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Many a time I've been wondering whether there is a "pathway", a "recipe" that leads a specific profession or activity to the top of its peers' list ? Whether there are quality characteristics of steady nature, whose presence boosts a given venture into a diachronic success, while their absence turn other similar ventures to subsequent mediocrity and gradual oblivion ?
When I posed this very question to a professor of mine once, he came to me with an amazing answer: "The key to success ... " he said " ... in every venture you decide to undertake is to try not to be a little something to almost everybody but to be almost everything to only a bunch of people".
The University of Cambridge followed that recipe and managed to be steadily ranked amongst the top five Academic Institutions of this planet for quite a few centuries now. It has a reputation that acts like "honey to the bees" to young, gifted minds from all over the globe, while at the same time it unsparingly provides both high standards' academic programs for almost all sciences, as well as an amazing Medieval environment whithin which these programs are followed and completed.
The above scene was taken from a floating boat over the river Cam. A few more will follow ...
NIKON D90 DSLR with Nikon Nikkor 18 - 55 lens, Shutter priority mode, shutter speed 1/100 s, ISO 100, f 4.5, focal length 29 mm, use of HOYA ND X 2 filter, cloudy weather white balance, center weighted average metering mode, HDR processing derived from only one RAW file, no flash, no tripod ...
D'abord, le design extérieur : entre le fer à repasser futuriste finition carbone et la Renault Zoé revue sauce Star Wars, elle ne plaira certainement pas à tout le monde. Ne nous arrêtons pas à l'apparence, il faut voir ce qu'elle compte proposer à ses futurs acquéreurs.
Consciente qu'elle devait répondre à des besoins spécifiques, Alef Aeronautics, depuis sa création en 2015, s'est concentrée sur trois points : que son véhicule puisse se conduire comme une voiture classique, qu'elle puisse décoller verticalement et que son prix demeure relativement accessible (nous reviendrons ensuite sur le mot « relativement »).
La Model A présente une autonomie de conduite de 322 kilomètres environ et une autonomie de vol de 177 km, le tout sur batterie. Sur ce point-là, difficile de la comparer à la concurrence, au vu de sa double fonction vol et roulage.
Le prix relativement bas qui a été annoncé par l'entreprise est de 300 000 $, soit le prix cumulé d'un Cessna 172 d'occasion (petit avion monomoteur de tourisme) et d'une voiture de catégorie luxe/GT/sportive neuve. La Model A ne s'adresse clairement pas à tout le monde. Ce prix élevé n'a pas empêché plus de 440 réservations du modèle à partir d'octobre 2022.
Les tests du véhicule ont commencé depuis 2019 et sa mise en production devrait commencer en 2025. Mais l'entreprise ne va pas s'arrêter là et développera d'autres modèles. Une berline, la Model Z prévue pour 2035 avec un prix de départ à 35 000 $. Certainement dans l'espoir de massifier la production et de sortir un premier projet vraiment accessible au plus grand nombre et lucratif pour viabiliser l'entreprise.
Les voitures volantes, bientôt un élément courant dans nos paysages ?
Nous n'en sommes pas là !
Même si ce projet prouve que cela reste un marché de niche destiné aux riches propriétaires ou aux entreprises, il est en réalité impossible de prévoir à l'avance ce que peut nous réserver une équipe de passionnés.
L'histoire de la tech est remplie d'exemple qui confirme d'ailleurs cette théorie.🤔
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First, the exterior design: between the futuristic carbon-finish iron and the Renault Zoé review with Star Wars sauce, it certainly won't appeal to everyone. Let's not stop at the appearance, we have to see what it intends to offer its future buyers.
Aware that it had to meet specific needs, Alef Aeronautics, since its creation in 2015, has focused on three points: that its vehicle can drive like a classic car, that it can take off vertically and that its price remains relatively accessible (we'll come back to the word "relatively" later).
The Model A has a driving range of approximately 322 kilometers and a flying range of 177 km, all on battery power. On this point, it is difficult to compare it to the competition, given its dual function of flight and taxiing.
The relatively low price that was advertised by the company is $300,000, which is the combined price of a used Cessna 172 (small single-engine passenger aircraft) and a new luxury/GT/sport class car . The Model A is clearly not for everyone. This high price did not prevent more than 440 reservations of the model from October 2022.
Tests of the vehicle have started since 2019 and its production should start in 2025. But the company is not going to stop there and will develop other models. A sedan, the Model Z scheduled for 2035 with a starting price of $35,000. Certainly in the hope of massiveizing production and releasing a first project that is truly accessible to as many people as possible and lucrative to make the company viable.
Flying cars, soon a common element in our landscapes?
We are not there !
Even if this project proves that it remains a niche market aimed at wealthy owners or companies, it is actually impossible to predict in advance what a team of enthusiasts may have in store for us.
The history of tech is full of examples that confirm this theory.🤔
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The Rockwood Conservation Area has a rich and unique geological aspect. A few specific features that are a part of the environment at the Rockwood conservation area include glacier bluffs, potholes, caves and some of the oldest dated trees in Ontario.
The cave system includes a series of 12 caves, which is one of the most extensive networks in Ontario. Within the caves is a prominent feature called flowstone, which over many years is created by flowing water that deposits a type of calcium carbonate called calcite.
Another feature at Rockwood are the potholes. Within the conservation area, there is over 200 potholes that all vary in measurements. These potholes are also known as giant's kettles, which are large cavities that have been drilled by flowing water carrying stones and gravel.
As well, glacial bluffs are seen at Rockwood. These have been formed over thousands of years after the earth’s most recent ice age ended. They can be relatively small and get as large as 30 meters deep and 200 meters wide.
Pakleno is an area in Hahllić mountain range..
It consists of three peaks and a canyon.. Stone formations and vegetation are very unique and specific to this Adriatic area..
Peaks are in 1300+ meters range..
We often talk about lenses in photography.
How important is it to create photographs using a specific lens?
I don't know the answer, and I use old lenses to create a special, rather than modern, character in my images.
I was very lucky to use Tessar lenses, and later Sonnar lenses, in my youth – it's amazing how they capture and transmit the image and light.
Here is a photograph taken with a Zeiss 1.5 50mm Sonnar lens. Tango.
* The Zeiss Sonnar is a photographic lens originally designed by Dr. Ludwig Bertele in 1929
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Specific cloud type:
Cirrocumulus stratiformis undulatus & iridescence
As the photograph suggests, and observations confirm, lenticular wave clouds produce some of the most vivid coronas and especially iridescence. Similarly, altocumulus and cirrocumulus consisting of fine ripples (undulatus) produce more vivid coronas and iridescence than those composed of polygonal convection cells.
This is a more zoomed in view from a previous upload. Focal Length (35mm format) - 120 mm
Picture of the day
Heaven had two angels named Ginger.
The first was everything an angel should be. Graceful, elegant, gentle, and beautiful enough to make the sunset blush.
The second was equally beautiful, but Heaven had received several complaints.
Missing halos. Mysteriously rearranged clouds. Cupid's arrows turning up in the strangest places.
When summoned before the heavenly council, both angels appeared.
“Which one of you is responsible?”
The elegant Ginger looked appropriately concerned.
The mischievous Ginger smiled sweetly.
“I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific.”
And somewhere in the back of the room, Pops quietly polished his halo and pretended he knew nothing.
The investigation remains open. 😇
One of the exhibits at the Wilson County Fair was a demonstration in blacksmithing. This specific demonstration was a gentleman making a ball pein hammer head and, at this point, he was splitting open the center to create a hole for the handle. I could have stood and watched this for longer than everyone else was willing but was able to stay long enough to snap a few decent photos of this amazing, old world craft. If you ever get the chance to watch this, take it...it will be worth your time!!
Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff):
Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 1600
Aperture – f/6.3
Exposure – 1/30 second
Focal Length – 220mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
Har ni hört talas om håris?
Det är ett vitt hårsvall som fastnar i grenarna när vättarna varit uppe och festat om natten och vid gryningen får bråttom ner i sina hålor!
SMHI:s förklaring är dock lite annorlunda:
När lufttemperaturen är strax under noll grader och vatten tränger ut ur ett icke fruset stycke trä, fryser vattnet i omgångar och bildar detta svall av is som ser ut som sockervadd eller varför inte vätteskägg.
Det verkar inte vara ett helt förklarat fenomen eftersom SMHI skriver att det (nog) inte rör sig om rent regnvatten utan möjligen har en inblandning av bakterier, pseudomonas syringae.
Hair ice (also known as ice wool or frost beard) is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair.It is somewhat uncommon, and has been reported mostly at latitudes between 45 and 55°N in broadleaf forests. The meteorologist and discoverer of continental drift, Alfred Wegener, described hair ice on wet dead wood in 1918, assuming some specific fungi as the catalyst, a theory mostly confirmed by Gerhart Wagner and Christian Mätzler in 2005. In 2015, the fungus Exidiopsis effusa was identified as key to the formation of hair ice.
This specific jawa is an intelligent one. He has stolen the landspeeder from the Mos Eisley, there it was, waiting to be taken. And now it takes him to a places he no see before. Here is a moment, when he is watching the horizon and making the final decision of going any further of the Lars moisture farm, aka Lars homestead.
Did you know The Great Chott salt flat is so close to this place?
One more for "the moisture farm series" I did earlier this year. I was about to bury this under the sand, but then realized that it could be a nice little addition to the series, as I’ve did spent a lot of time on setting-up the scene, photography and cleaning the mess it created during the process. I was about to do a full color version, but this precise monochrome started to impress me a just bit more. Maybe I’ll just do the color version later (or not). Happy holidays!
Decided to bust out the old telescope last night and do some deep space imaging, been a while since I used it and my bigger mount. Of course I'm on call at work which means I can't travel far, have to stay within cell range and be able to get in to work within an hour. So I headed up to my fallback shooting location, Rockport Reservoir. Got up there, spent an hour setting everything up, went to start up my tablet and begin alignment and then I noticed...I was missing the bluetooth dongle for my wireless keyboard and mouse. The stupid tablet touchscreen keyboard won't allow you to use specific key commands in combination, commands I need to do the alignment and get my target in the field of view. So I spent another hour looking for the dongle, realizing it wasn't going to be found, and trying everything I knew to get the alignment to work. No dice, almost decided to pack it up, but instead I did the sharpcap polar alignment and decided to give doing a fully manual mount alignment using a laser pointer. Chose Andromeda because I could actually see it, used the laser pointer and nailed the alignment first try. I just laughed when the first image popped up on the tablet.
I wasted so much time with all that crap so I only got about 100 minutes worth of data. This is stack of 16 exposures, each 7 minutes at ISO 800 with my Nikon D7000 and Astrotech AT65EDQ on a Sirius EQ-G tracking mount. Not the best, but given all the crap I had to go through to get it....I'll take it.
Under very specific circumstances, when it isn't too rainy, or hot, when the sun's just right, when it isn't too crowded, when you find a nice patch of nature and fallen autumn leaves. Under those specific, narrow circumstances it's the most wondeful time of year.
Wetenschappelijk: Cyathus striatus
Scientific name: Cyathus striatus
Many people assume finding Cyathus striatus in the woods is like finding a needle in a haystack. Although, each individual fruiting body is smaller than a dime, several fruiting bodies are found close together. This helps make Cyathus striatus visible even from yards away! The fungi is nonphotosynthetic and strictly terrestrial.
Cyathus striatus, commonly known as the fluted bird's nest is a common saprobic bird's nest fungus with a widespread distribution throughout temperate regions of the world. This fungus resembles a miniature bird's nest with numerous tiny "eggs"; the eggs, or peridioles, are actually lens-shaped bodies that contain spores. C. striatus can be distinguished from most other bird's nest fungi by its hairy exterior and grooved inner walls. Although most frequently found growing on dead wood in open forests, it also grows on wood chip mulch in urban areas. The fruiting bodies are encountered from summer until early winter. The color and size of this species can vary somewhat, but they are typically less than a centimeter wide and tall, and grey or brown in color. Another common name given to C. striatus, splash cups, alludes to the method of spore dispersal: the sides of the cup are angled such that falling drops of water can dislodge the peridioles and eject them from the cup. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin stria, meaning "with fine ridges or grooves".
Gestreept nestzwammetje
Beschrijving
< 1cm: loep
Vruchtlichaam gesloten tol- tot bekervormig, Ø 6-8 mm, 7-10 mm hoog. Buitenzijde borstelig-harig, bruin, met een wit, onregelmatig openscheurend vlies. Beker met grijswitte "eitjes" van 1-2 mm, met een draadje vastgehecht, binnenzijde gestreept, glanzend, licht- tot donker bruingrijs.
Voorkomen
Op spaanders, grof strooisel, stronken, takken en twijgen van loofbomen en struiken.
Saprofiet.
Status
Algemeen.
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Anant amb canalla, una visita a Londres havia d'incloure per força el WB Harry Potter Studios, on hi ha bona part dels decorats construits per a les 8 pel·licules del famós mag.
El lloc en sí és obviament enmig d'un poligon industrial perdut a la periferia de Londres, a Watford, en concret. Cal agafar un tren i un bus, però està força ben montat. I el lloc és evidentment espectacular. Per poc que hagueu vist les pel·licules, val molt la pena pel nivell de detall ingent que hi varen dedicar (com m'agradaria viure més aprop de Nova Zelanda per poder fer el mateix amb LOTR).
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Traveling with children, a visit to London had to include the WB Harry Potter Studios, where there are many sets built for the 8 films of the famous wizard.
The site itself is placed in the middle of a lost industrial estate on the outskirts of London, in Watford to be specific. You have to take a train and a bus, but it's pretty well set up. And the place is obviously spectacular. No matter how little you've seen the movies, it's well worth it for the huge level of detail they put into it (how I wish I lived closer to New Zealand so I could do the same with LOTR).
“The Celestial Ship of the North (Emergency Ark), Also known as the Barnboat is a site-specific installation and permanent sculpture in the farmlands of Michigan’s Thumb. Based on ideas of ancient vessels, duality, alchemical symbolism, destruction myths, and deluge stories, and shaped by the site’s history and incredibly consistent winds.
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The specific climate of my city. Next to renovated and new buildings, there are places where time has stopped.
A strange mix of different worlds was created.
Murals and graffiti only intensify this effect.
Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
Southwestern Florida
USA
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The raccoon was splashing around under the boardwalk looking for small fish in the water. The animal seemed unafraid and did not leave when I stood over it on the boardwalk. We had a brief encounter where I stared at the raccoon and the raccoon stared back at me. You can see it in this image. Its paws were in the water. Then the raccoon went on its merry way.
The raccoon (Procyon lotor), also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon, or coon, is a medium-sized mammal native to North America. The raccoon is the largest of the procyonid family, having a body length of (16 to 28 in) and a body weight of 11 to 57 lb). Raccoons are noted for their intelligence, with studies showing that they are able to remember the solution to tasks for at least three years. They are usually nocturnal and omnivorous, eating about 40% invertebrates, 33% plants, and 27% vertebrates.
The original habitats of the raccoon are deciduous and mixed forests, but due to their adaptability they have extended their range to mountainous areas, coastal marshes, and urban areas, where some homeowners consider them to be pests. As a result of escapes and deliberate introductions in the mid-20th century, raccoons are now also distributed across much of mainland Europe, Caucasus, and Japan.
Though previously thought to be generally solitary, there is now evidence that raccoons engage in gender-specific social behavior. Related females often share a common area, while unrelated males live together in groups of up to four animals to maintain their positions against foreign males during the mating season, and other potential invaders. Home range sizes vary anywhere from 3 hectares (7.4 acres) for females in cities to 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) for males in prairies. Their life expectancy in the wild is only 1.8 to 3.1 years. - Wikipedia
Every photographer has a bucket list. Or sometimes even two: one with locations, and one with specific subjects. For many years my two bucket lists had something in common - both the #1 location and the #1 subject were in the same country: Yemen.
Some 240 kilometers (150 mi) east of the coast of Somalia and 380 kilometers (240 mi) south of Yemen lies the island of Socotra. The island is very isolated, and home to 700 (!) endemic species; up to a third of its plant life is endemic. It has been described as “the most alien-looking place on Earth” and “the jewel of the Arabian Sea”. In 2008 Socotra was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
One of the most striking of Socotra’s plants is the dragon blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari), which is a strange-looking, umbrella-shaped tree. Its red sap was thought to be the dragon’s blood of the ancients. It is this tree that was at the top of my bucket list for a very, very long time.
But Yemen has been unstable for decades. Civil wars, a revolution, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, starvation. The current civil war started in 2015 and has cost the lives of over 20,000 civilians. In 2018, the United Nations warned that 13 million Yemeni civilians face starvation in what it says could become “the worst famine in the world in 100 years”.
As a result, it has been impossible to visit the island for many years - no planes or even boats would go there (I tried). Until suddenly there was an opportunity and I took it. It turned out to be one of the most intense projects I have ever done, and over the next few weeks, I will share my experiences here with you.
>>> You can help the people in Yemen by donating here: rescue.org
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I don't generally have a specific image in mind when I visit a place to photograph; it's more a question of soaking up what's there and looking for a composition to catch the eye, given the scene, the prevailing weather conditions, the available light and any number of other considerations.
But this image is a rare exception. I went up here - beyond the top end of Cwm Idwal and half way up the path to the Devil's Kitchen - to capture just this photograph. I had to wait a while whilst the sun danced in and out of the cloud cover but, for better or worse, I eventually 'succeeded', in the sense that I got what I had gone there for!
This is from a while ago now, during early June when the landscape is sporting its new verdant coat. A recent image I saw captured hereabouts seems to suggest that the little tree that provides the foreground focus is no longer alive - but I very much hope I'm mistaken about that.😃
Pentax K1 + Pentax DFA 24-70mm lens.
An M636, C430, and an RS3M await the call to duty outside of the Western New York & Pennsylvania shop in Olean, NY. The M636 has since been sold to the Delaware Lackawanna, and the rest of the WNYP's once large fleet of 6 axle Alco and MLW products have been sidelined by second hand GE AC6000CWs. The 4 axle Alcos continue to work hard for the railroad, for now.
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When I went out to shoot that morning I had a very specific idea on what I wanted to capture. This was NOT it. The lesson learned is to keep checking your surroundings because the unexpected will surprise you!
While recently visiting my father for his re-marriage, he gave me the ring my mother once gave to him. My mothers promise, I now wear next to my heart. They remind me of how brave, beautiful and dependable she was. When she said 'I do" she did.
~Till death do us part ~
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Me Again Monday ~ the mirror
We've got a new list of themes, and nothing specific for any week Come on over and play
HMAM
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Completed my first architecture specific workshop last weekend and it couldn't have went any better or been any more enjoyable.
Day 1 we photographed around Glasgow in the lovely grey weather and then headed east to Edinburgh once the rain started.
Day 2 we learned in-depth post processing techniques in Lr and Ps
Day 3 we put those skills into practice and all worked through our chosen image together followed by an open question/request session.
Was great to meet the guys who were really enthusiastic and produced very impressive images, I can' wait to see more.
This is a recent image from the Riverside Museum, Glasgow.
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Sisters' Meals Festival Of Miao Ethnic Group
The Sisters’ Rice Festival is sometimes called Sisters’ Meal Festival or Eat Sisters’ Rice Festival. The legend is there was once an old man and his wife who had three beautiful daughters. One day while they played on the riverside, the young girls felt lovesick. Zhang Guolao, a bearded God who carried a bamboo tubular drum, possessed the spirits of the girls, telling them to prepare five-colored rolls of glutinous rice filled with shrimp, fish and other special things. When young men came down from the mountain, the beautiful girls presented the rice to them. In this way, the young girls found their marriage partners
Sisters’ Meal festival, which takes in the Spring, is specific to southeast Guizhou. During the third lunar month in Shidong, Taijiang County in Southeast Guizhou Province, girls flock to the mountains to collect wild flowers and berries to dye the glutinous rice known as Sister’s Rice and everyone cooks up a storm! A storm of glutinous rice that is — dyed in several colors and formed into balls. Each girl prepares her rice with a symbol then wraps it in a handkerchief or put inside small baskets
The Miao minority “Sisters’ Rice Festival” is a celebration of spring and of love. Dressed in finest embroidered and appliqued clothing, adorned in all their freshly shined silver jewelry, young women set out to attract a suitable mate. That’s the traditional goal, but fun is the name of the game! Two, sometimes three, festival days are filled with dancing, singing, eating, drinking lots of rice wine, watching bull fights and cockfights, and horse racing.
The Festival brings villagers from many remote areas together, the girls beautifully dressed in their embroidered costumes. A kaleidoscope of colors, local customs and traditions, signature costumes and hairstyles provide a never-ending fashion show. It is said that the Miao originated from the egg of a butterfly that emerged from a maple tree. The butterfly married a bubble and laid twelve eggs. A mythical bird called the Jiyu watched over the eggs for twelve years and finally they hatched into a Miao man known as Jiangyang, a Thunder God known as Leigong, a water buffalo, snake, dragon, tiger, centipede, elephant and four other omens. All of these symbols are found in the exquisite embroidery and colorful decoration of these artistically talented people.
In anticipation of the Sisters’ Rice Festival, the grandmothers, mothers and other female relatives polish and shine the collection of silver neck rings, bracelets, anklets, earrings, hair pins and combs, rings and pendants, phoenix crowns and headpieces that the young courting-age girls will wear. The Miao believe that silver, representing light, dispels evil spirits. Silver is also a symbol of wealth and beauty, and some young women wear several kilograms of it at one time. Dazzling embroidered skirts, blouses, aprons and jackets are decorated with many different tooled silver ornaments. Pretty necks are encircled with bands of silver and linking silver chains that support large shining lockets, glittering beads and hanging tassels. Elaborate silver headpieces crown the heads of the girls as they proudly display their self-made costumes.
The festival always begins with special family meals. Sharing traditional foods such as rice that has been colored with the dyes of different leaves, berries and flowers, then cooked in bamboo tubes, and homemade rice wine, is similarly practised among the many Miao tribes. Some of the dyed rice is molded into balls that hold hidden treasures. These rice balls are presented to the young men who come to visit, and each treasure has a different meaning. Pine needles mean “You should give me embroidery needles.” and corn silk is a suggestion of fine yarn. A thorn tells the lucky fellow “You are the one!” Chopsticks or red flower pistils say, “Let’s marry quickly — the sooner the better.” And a single chopstick, some garlic or chili means, “Find someone else!”
Meanwhile, you will find many elders at the cockfighting competitions, trading at the daylong markets, or leisurely rowing long dugout canoes on the river beside the festival ground. This is a time of camaraderie and “catching up.” Mid-morning approaches, and the elders rush off to the bullfights. Excitement rises as the mighty bulls lock horns, trying to wrestle each other to the ground. All day long, one bull after another is defeated and then the final match begins. The winning bull brings great honor and riches to his owner for the following year, so although it is festival, the participants enter into the fights with a certain seriousness. Such anxiety calls for much merriment, eating, drinking and friendly betting. The champion bull’s horns are festooned with chickens, ducks, red ribbons and flowers as he is led around the battleground and through the town, snorting proudly for all to see. Finally he is bathed in the soothing waters of the Qingshui. The crowds thin out as people join picnics and special feasts.
The Qingshui riverside becomes lively and exciting as the music and dancing begins. As they walk and dance, the lovely Miao girls jingle and shimmer in the sun. Their cheeks burn with excitement while they flirt with handsome young men, each of whom is searching for a beauty worthy of his strength and handsomeness. Towards evening the newly formed couples break away and begin singing together.
When darkness falls, the festival beat increases as the dragon dances begin. Candles are lit inside the 25-meter-long hollow paper dragons. Battles begin as the fiery dragons weave in and out of the hooting crowds chasing each other. Drums and fireworks complete the noisy atmosphere. Into the evening, the elders continue to make the rounds, greeting their friends, swapping stories and songs, sharing tobacco and wine As the moon rises high in the night sky, young lovers wander off. The mountain paths are busy with the sounds of tinkling footsteps and clear melodious voices singing gentle love songs to the tunes of Lusheng pipes. Long into the night, the partying continues… Bamboo flutes and wooden drums echo sounds throughout the valley as the dawn breaks, beginning the next day’s festivities. As crowds slowly gather, the lovely dancing girls strut like peacocks while the boys look on admiringly
Geometry train W001 heads east from Grand Rapids on a sunny October morning.
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Spotted this beautiful Polish-built Lim-5, a licence-built version of the Soviet MiG-17F, putting on an incredible show! This specific aircraft, serial number 1211, spent decades in military service before being carefully restored to flying condition.
The real spectacle is the afterburner, producing a huge burst of orange flame from the tailpipe even in broad daylight. Hearing that vintage jet engine roar and watching it streak across the sky feels like taking a step right back into the Cold War.
To be more specific, one of the pressed flower note cards our mother used to make. She was a very creative, talented, gifted person, and one of the many things she would make were these note cards made with pressed flowers from her own garden.
She had a patch of Queen Anne's Lace growing in the backyard for this purpose. I still have a small assortment of her cards left, and this one with the Queen Annes' Lace flower is my favorite.
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Allium ursinum
Species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae
Allium ursinum, known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows's leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, Eurasian wild garlic or bear's garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Eurasia, where it grows in moist woodland.[2] It is a wild relative of onion and garlic, all belonging to the same genus, Allium. There are two recognized subspecies: A. ursinum subsp. ursinum and A. ursinum subsp. ucrainicum.[3]
Quick Facts Scientific classification, Binomial name ...
Wild garlic in Hampshire, UK
Etymology
The Latin specific name ursinum translates to 'bear' and refers to the supposed fondness of the brown bear for the bulbs; folk tales describe the bears consuming them after awakening from hibernation.[3] Another theory is that the "ursinum" may refer to Ursa Major, as A. ursinum was perhaps one of the most northerly distributed Allium species known to the ancient Greeks,[3] though this hypothesis is disputed.[4] Common names for the plant in many languages also make reference to bears.[5]
Cows love to eat them, hence the modern vernacular name of cows's leek.[6] In Devon, dairy farmers have occasionally had the milk of their herds rejected because of the garlic flavour imparted to it by the cows having grazed upon the plant.[6]
Ramsons is from the Old English word hramsa, meaning "garlic". There is evidence it has been used in British cuisine since the Celtic Britons over 1,500 years ago.[7]
Early healers among the Celts, Gaels, and Teutonic tribes and ancient Romans were familiar with the wild herb who called it herba salutaris, meaning 'healing herb'.[7]
Description
1885 illustration from Otto Wilhelm Thomé
Allium ursinum is a bulbous, perennial herbaceous monocot, that reproduces primarily by seed. The narrow bulbs are formed from a single leaf base[8] and produce bright green entire, elliptical leaves up to 25 cm (10 in) long by 7 cm (3 in) wide with a petiole up to 20 cm (8 in) long.[8] The inflorescence is an umbel of six to 20 white flowers, lacking the bulbils produced by some other Allium species such as Allium vineale (crow garlic) and Allium oleraceum (field garlic).[9][8][10] The flowers are star-like with six white tepals, about 16–20 mm (5⁄8–13⁄16 in) in diameter, with stamens shorter than the perianth.[8]
It flowers in the British Isles from April to June,[8] starting before deciduous trees leaf in the spring. The flower stem is triangular in cross-section and the leaves are broadly lanceolate, similar to those of the toxic lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis).[3]
Similarity to poisonous plants
Allium ursinum (left) and Arum maculatum (right) growing side by side in a woodland
Plants that may be mistaken for A. ursinum include lily of the valley, Colchicum autumnale, Arum maculatum, and Veratrum viride or Veratrum album,[11] all of which are poisonous. In Europe, where ramsons are popularly harvested from the wild, people are regularly poisoned after mistakenly picking lily of the valley or Colchicum autumnale.[12]
Grinding the leaves between the fingers and checking for a garlic-like smell can be helpful, but if the smell remains on the hands, one can mistake a subsequent poisonous plant for a safe one.[12] When the leaves of A. ursinum and Arum maculatum first sprout, they look similar, but unfolded Arum maculatum leaves have irregular edges and many deep veins, while ramsons leaves are convex with a single main vein. The leaves of lily of the valley are in pairs, dull green, and come from a single reddish-purple stem, while the leaves of A. ursinum each have their own stem, are shiny when new, and are bright green.[13]
Distribution and habitat
It is native to Europe and Asia, where it grows in moist woodland.[2] It can be found in temperate Europe from Ireland east to the Caucasus.[citation needed] It is common in much of the lowlands of the British Isles with the exception of the far north of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland.[14] The ursinum subspecies is found in western and central Europe, while the ucrainicum subspecies is found in the east and southeast.[3]
A. ursinum covers the forest floor in early May (Riis Skov, Denmark)
It grows in deciduous woodlands with moist soils, preferring slightly acidic conditions. In the British Isles, colonies are frequently associated with bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), especially in ancient woodland. It is considered to be an ancient woodland indicator species.[15]
Ecology
As its name suggests, A. ursinum is an important food for brown bears.[16] The plant is also a favourite of wild boar.[citation needed]
A. ursinum is the primary larval host plant for a specialised hoverfly, Portevinia maculata (ramsons hoverfly).[17]
The flowers are pollinated by bees.[18]
Uses
All parts of A. ursinum are edible. The leaves can be used as salad, herb,[19] boiled as a vegetable,[20] in soup, or as an ingredient for a sauce that may be a substitute for pesto in lieu of basil. Leaves are also often used to make garlic butter.[21] In Russia the stems are preserved by salting and eaten as a salad. A variety of Cornish Yarg cheese has a rind coated in wild garlic leaves.[22] The leaves can be pickled in the same way as Allium ochotense known as mountain garlic in Korea.[23] The bulbs can be used similarly to garlic cloves, and the flowers are also edible. Parts of the plant can be used for preparing Van herbed cheese, a speciality of the Van province in Turkey.[citation needed]
Popular dishes using the plant include pesto, soups, pasta, cheese, scones and Devonnaise.[citation needed]
The leaves are also used as fodder. Cows that have fed on ramsons give milk that tastes slightly of garlic, and butter made from this milk used to be very popular in 19th-century Switzerland.[citation needed]
The first evidence of the human use of A. ursinum comes from the Mesolithic settlement of Barkær (Denmark), where an impression of a leaf has been found. In the Swiss Neolithic settlement of Thayngen-Weier (Cortaillod culture), a high concentration of pollen from A. ursinum was found in the settlement layer, interpreted by some as evidence for use of the plant as fodder.[24]
Herbal remedy
Allium ursinum has been credited with many medicinal qualities and is a popular homeopathic ingredient. It is often used for treating cardiovascular, respiratory, and digestive problems, as well as for the sterilisation of wounds.[25]
Various minerals are found in much higher amounts in Allium ursinum than in clove garlic. It is sometimes called the "magnesium king" of plants because of the high levels of this mineral found in the leaves.[citation needed]
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