Tugs Taking the Strain
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Normally, we like to sleep late on vacation:). This time it was worth getting up early. The light, the fog, the landscape and the fresh morning air rewarded us for our stresses and strains.
The Bastei rock formation in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Saxony, Germany.
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De IJsselbrug vormt de verbinding over de IJssel tussen Zwolle en Hattem. Enkele honderden meters naast deze brug ligt ook nog de Nieuwe IJsselbrug in de A28 en een spoorbrug op de spoorlijn Utrecht - Zwolle.
Op 4 oktober 1947 heropende de Minister van Openbare Werken en Wederopbouw, ir. H. Vos, de IJsselbrug. De brug die in 1930 werd opengesteld, is tijdens de oorlog twee keer vernield: de eerste keer door het Nederlandse leger om de Duitse opmars te hinderen (mei 1940), de tweede keer door het Duitse leger om het de geallieerde troepen moeilijk te maken verder op te rukken (1945).
De IJsselbrug is sinds 1999 rijksmonument. Stichting Boogbrug uit Vianen doet moeite om deze brug op de Werelderfgoedlijst te krijgen.
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The IJsselbrug connects over the IJssel between Zwolle and Hattem. A few hundred meters next to this bridge is also the New IJsselbrug the A28 and a railway bridge on the railway Utrecht - Zwolle.
On October 4, 1947 reopened the Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction, Ir. H. Fox, IJsselbrug. The bridge was opened in 1930, during the war destroyed twice: the first time by the Dutch army to hinder the German advance (May 1940), the second time by the German army in order to make it difficult Allied troops continue to march (1945).
The IJsselbrug since 1999 monument. Foundation Arch Bridge in Vianen straining to get this bridge on the World Heritage List.
Spotted Pardalote straining to see something.
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This view did some very wonky things to my eyes so I figured it would make for an interesting shot. At first glance, the eyes are challenged as they strain to figure out what is being viewed. But, upon further inspection one can tell it is a snow lined shore with colored trees reflecting in the river. The combination of cold and warm colors also contributed to an interesting look.
Credits:
Body: Lara by Maitreya
Head: Uma by Catwa
Head Applier: Susanne new from Session @ eBENTO
Skin Tone: Tone01 from Session
Hair: Salma new from Sintiklia @ eBENTO
Dress: Kathia new from Avale @ Cosmopolitan
Footwear: Nicol new from Nanika @ The Chapter Four
Tattoo: Exquisite Perfume new from K-tarsis @ eBENTO
Pose and Weights: Celly Pose #1 new from Kokoro Poses @ eBENTO
ANNE
Gently, little boat
across the ocean float,
the crystal waves dividing.
The sun in the west
is going to rest.
Glide toward the islands of the blessed.
MADMEN
What voice is this?
What heavenly strains
bring solace to tormented brains?
ANNE
Orchards greenly grace
that undisturbed place.
The weary soul recalling
to slumber and dream,
while many a stream
falls descanting on a child-like theme.
MADMEN
Oh sacred music of the spheres!
Where are our rages and our fears?
ANNE
Lion, lamb, and deer,
untouched by greed or fear
about the woods are straying.
And quietly now the blossoming bough
sway above the fair, unclouded brow.
MADMEN
Sing on! Forever sing!
Release our frantic souls and bring us peace.
Nikon D7000, Tokina 12-28. F stop small enough to show a million sensor spots. An old one, re-processed.
Pumped up with testosterone, the Red Deer stag has only one thing on its mind. Forgoing food, it fights off contenders, locking with them in a clash of antlers.
In such a stage of mind its a powerful and unpredictable beast. To photograph it I had to get fairly close, but didn't hang about too long. Seeing it attention was drawn to me, I withdraw to a safer place.
When the autumn rut is over, exhausted and battle weary, they reverts back to their calmer ways, to await another season. And so it is, the next generation is secured. Such is the cycle of life and the need to propagate the species. Long may it continue.
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Wish I could remember the name of this Guy. Could he be a Puffer or Blowfish? I'll just call him Hootie :-)
He was very interested in my camera and seemed to enjoy posing for a portrait.
Thanks to Flickr Friend, Sheri Rapstra, I have Hootie’s Identification. He’s just what he resembles… a Cowfish.
Call me silly, I should have guessed :-)
The longhorn cowfish, Lactoria cornuta, also called the horned boxfish, is a variety of boxfish from the family Ostraciidae, recognizable by its long horns that protrude from the front of its head, rather like those of a cow or bull. They are a resident of the Indo-Pacific region and can grow up to 50 centimeters (20 inches) long. While badly suited to the home aquarium, the cowfish is becoming increasingly popular as a pet.
Adults are reef fish, often solitary and territorial, and live around sand or rubble bottom up to a depth of 50 m. They are omnivorous, feeding upon benthic algae, various microorganisms, and foraminiferans that it strains from sediments, sponges, polychaetae worms from sand flats, mollusks, small crustaceans, and small fish, able to feed on benthic invertebrates by blowing jets of water into the sandy substrate.
(Wikipedia)
Found at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California.
Nikon - 105mm - 1/125 @ f4 - ISO 2000
A rather unproductive week photowise.
Started a new job after being invited to the world of redundancy, found it didn’t quite live up to its part time description...7 to 8hrs per day instead of 4.
Something has triggered another deliciously agonising episode of g**t, so I’m at a bit of a lower ebb than normal...
...in addition our holiday to Spain has been knocked on the head due to a rising spike in Covid...oh the effin joys.
So this pic is an alternative take on an earlier posting for which I do not apologise.
Anyone from the UK and of a certain vintage may well associate the image with Hovis bread and the strains of the New World Symphony.
A Great Blue Heron strains to get some momentum into a strong wind at the Shiawassee NWR on this evening, June, 2022. The "Shiawassee Flats" are a delta where the Flint, Cass, and Shiawassee Rivers converge before joining the Tittabawassee River to form the Saginaw River.
Image Created in Deep Dream Generator.New Background and Lighting effects in Photoshop.What Life may be like with a totally different Bio-Chemistry (not necessarily DNA)
Lake Vyrnwy is a reservoir in Powys, Wales, built in the 1880s for Liverpool Corporation Waterworks to supply Liverpool with fresh water. It flooded the head of the Vyrnwy valley and submerged the village of Llanwddyn.
That curious look
The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) has 20–30 races ranging across Asia. Birds naturalized elsewhere are mixtures of races, with the gray-rumped ringneck (or Chinese) strain usually dominatin
Explore Feb 6/09...Trumpeter Swan - Coior photo, not b/w View Large On Black Trumpeters have broad, flat bills with fine tooth-like serrations along the edges that strain water when the birds eat aquatic vegetation. Their long necks allow them to uproot plants in 4 feet of water. .IMG_3250
Low-growing evergreen perennial native to subslpine southern Oregon and northern California.
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This is one of the groynes on Blyth Beach and something has obviously gone awry. I spotted it as I was trying to get a shot of the beach huts and thought that it might make for a good mono long exposure. However, when I got there the low sun was bouncing off the face of it so I thought a colour LE would work better.
I do want to go back when the tide is a little higher so I can get the end of the groyne disappearing into the North Sea.
"Take the strain" is an idiom that generally means to bear the burden or responsibility for something, often a difficult or stressful situation. It implies relieving someone else of pressure or worry by taking on the challenge yourself.
What's the difference between a rope and a cable?
The term cable is often used interchangeably with wire rope. However, in general, wire rope refers to diameters larger than 3/8 inch.
Sizes smaller than this are designated as cable or cords. Two or more wires concentrically laid around a centre wire is called a strand.
Beer, Devon, UK.