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Again catching up with the storm, I'm now underneath the main updraft area facing west toward a translucent curtain of hail shafts. Most of the hail was rather small (about pea sized) as the storm was beginning to weaken and it was already quite low topped.
This image was taken at Scarborough off the shoreline at Scarborough Harbor at the Northern tip of the Redcliffe Peninsula in Queensland, Australia.
Prior to European occupation (read invasion), this and every part of the land we now call Australia was occupied by what we now call Aboriginal people (See profile for an overview of this history).
INDIGENOUS HISTORY
The area has a rich indigenous history. The Turrbal generally occupied the area north of the Brisbane River. Both groups had closely related languages which are classified as belonging to the larger Yaggera language group.
Under customary law, the history and culture of the Turrbal people cannot be told or used in any other manner, shape or form by non-Turrbal person without permission.. Therefore, I refer anyone interested in the history of this people to the website below for more information.
www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&...
In nearby Shorncliffe the Ningy-Ningy clan had displaced the Turrbal by the 1850s . Again out of respect for their customary law, I refer anyone interested in the history of this clan to the website below for more information
www.dakibudtcha.com.au/ningy_ningy_history.htm
Of course the experiences of Indigenous – European interactions were not homogenous nor were the attitudes each Indigenous group took towards European ‘settlers’ and visa versa. The overall story was not good for Indigenous people, but simplistic accounts of adversarial conflict and a will to wipe out the Indigenous community are simply false. I recommend reading The Australian People (edited by James Jupp). This account gives a reasonably balanced view from a historians perspective. See the link below to order this book.
books.google.com.au/books?id=yTKFBXfCI1QC&pg=PA369&am...
Footnote:
Apart from cropping and brightness/contrast adjustments, all of my images are presented as they were when the shutter closed, unless otherwise stated.
Colombo, Sri Lanka
CROSSVIEW
To view 3D pics cross your eyes focusing between at the pictures until both images overlap one another in the middle.
Per vedere le foto in 3D incrociare (strabuzzare leggermente) gli occhi fino a che le due immagini si sovrappongono formandone una sola centrale.
What better place to stage an Otherworld than in this Otherworld? A visual representation of a medieval Welsh poem from The Book of Taliesin, early fourteenth-century.
Milan Central Station
(Platform twenty-two and twenty-three).
© Gianni Paolo Ziliani Photography™.
Train One (Left) RegioExpress from Milano Centrale to Mantova.
Train Two (Right) Regionale from Milano Centrale to Bergamo.
taken at the aberg ski resort in maria alm / austria
added to Cream of the Crop as my most favorited
Incredible India - Meghalaya. Early morning sun rays piercing the clouds to hit the mountains @ Cherrapunji (Sohra).
West Virginia haze in the early morning.
*Don't use this photography on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit authorization.
Brilliant beams of light this morning, didn't hang around for long.
ISO 200 | f/8 | 1/800 sec | 142mm
Strange how i went there thinking GO WIDE ANGLE and the shots i'm happiest with were with the 70 - 200 mm :-)
This magical moment lasts around half an hour then the sun is to high in the sky
Moody sky over the Khwai river with the sun breaking through the grey clouds.
Khwai, Botswana, Nov 2019
Olympus EM-1ii, LEICA DG 50-200/F2.8-4.0, @ 50mm, 1/500, F5.6, ISO 200