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Reiki the Maine Coon Cat lounging on a table in an apartment in Valencia, Spain.
I witnessed sunset last night from this vantage point in Haleakala National Park. It was... fantastic. I thought about waiting another day to see this park, since I was running on only a tiny amount of sleep yesterday and had just arrived to the island (and it takes about two hours to drive to this place)... but, well, curiosity won out. So I spent almost four hours of driving to stand for twenty minutes in this spot. Totally. Worth it.
And then, on about five hours of sleep from last night, I woke up at 3am to make the drive up to this vantage point for sunrise. After that, I spent nine hours hiking down into the valley and around cinder cones and then back up an amazing set of switchbacks that were covered in mist and lush vegetation. It was such a crazy variety of climates in one hike.
Tomorrow will be my third day here, and I've yet to step foot on a beach or even eat local food (hiking=pb&j and granola bars). I guess you can see what my priorities are. Nothing says "vacation" more to me than grueling days out on new and exciting trails. :-)
Alcázar de Segovia - Castilla y León - España
If you want to visit the Fairies is just a one hour trip from Madrid...
Si quereis visitar a las Hadas están a tan solo una hora de viaje de Madrid...
joy is a flower , she said , and as I look at her with eyes , joy is a red dress , I said .
Uhm...a joyful weekend for you my pretious friends....
A walk into the falling dusk - 12
Upstream at day's end. A place I've known from childhood into adulthood, but there's also a universality here, as everywhere.
Thank you so much for your comments on my yesterdays blurry paintery photo, i am so glad so many of you liked it, i enjoyed so much reading your sweet comments and so grateful for your favs!
this one is for Shutter Divas group assignment, childhood. taken last summer. My little one is less than 2 years here. Processed with tales for the soul action from Isabelle Lafrance.
www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/fox-tales.
A super documentary on the amazing life of foxes.
(Available for viewing only in Canada, unfortunately.)
The river Adda unfolds her beauty meandering at the feet of the hills; here the river widens and creates a series of coves (one of them lays just at the dead center of the frame, beyond the leftmost trees on the bank).
The postprocessing of this exposure bracketing has been rather longish and difficult, since the single shots looked pretty dull - but I knew that there should be more than met the eye, so I struggled hard to bring to life the real view, or, if you prefer, my memories of that moment.
(Almost) every shot has a story to tell - a soul of her own, if you like -, this is not breaking news for a photographer. But I am sometimes struck by the awareness that every shot holds back many more untold tales. They lay in an alien space and time, possibilities still to be actualized - or in the past, like already told tales which you have simply missed. I have taken photos at this same spot, but today is a fresh story - and I can feel the untold tales waiting their turn in the secret bowels of the river. Some of them are almost surfacing to light - like the pebbles just under the surface of the water - and I can feel them whispering in the peaceful silence of the morning. Soon I will be gone, taking with me - in my camera and in my very soul - today's tale. My own tale. Then a fresh one will begin unfolding.
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.
issuu.com/elifayiter/docs/alphatribe-tales
A book of avatar tales. This will eventually become a real (printed) book, which will be a part of my PhD dissertation. So, here I am also testing out how the final compilation will look - hence the page numbers and whatnot.
Winter fairy tale
After the snow chaos during the night, winter is now showing its best side. When the sun shines, the Eifel region looks like a winter fairy tale.
Wintermärchen
Nach dem Schneechaos in der Nacht zeigt sich der Winter nun von seiner besten Seite. Die Sonne zeigt sich bei strahlendem Sonnenschein zeigt sich die Region Eifel als Wintermärchen.
Darkroom print on ilford rc grade 2.
Cambo 4x5, 210 mm Schneider, f8
hp5 in d76.
playing with diy studio lighting.
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Noi ci preoccuperemo di quello che il destino
per noi ha stabilito, cammineremo insieme
la mano nella mano, con l'anima infantile
di quelli che si amano in modo puro, vero?
le interferenze sulle tettoie lacrimali, i cieli incrostati, le mandibole slogate, le ciglia slacciate,pettinare la polvere, pattinare sulla sabbia umida, a ferro e a fuoco il sistema limbico, i tuoi limpidi maremoti, la sensazione di essere ancora sul pavimento ad adorarti, il vento che torna, salpare gli abbracci,
lucidare gli scheletri, liberarli dagli armadi.
“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” -Charles Dickens
China, Harbin, "Ice & Snow Festival" on Sun Island.
The centre part of the over 120 mtr long & approx. 40 mtr high snow sculpture still in the finalizing carving process is the master piece & the main sculpture of the around 500 small size to larger sizes snow show pieces. The snow sculpture park is located next to the gigantic ice festival area
Sun island scenic area, covering about 3,800 hectares, approx. 35,25 square km, is the second biggest venue of the annual Harbin Ice & Snow Sculpture Festival & has become Harbin's main parkland & recreation area, used all year long.
The impressive "Ice & Snow Festival" is the greatest & unusual one in the world, therefore Harbin is also called the "Ice City".
The city centre Zhaolin Park futures the “Disney Ice Festival” as part of the Harbin "Ice & Snow Festival" / "Ice Lantern Festival". Besides the for floors ice castle with electric elevators there are more than hundred sculptures of different sizes & motives in the Zhaolin Park organized by Disney, at night all sculptures are colourful lighted with LED.
For the "Ice Festival" over a 100.000 Tons of Ice Blocks, cut from the around 1 mtr thick ice sheet covering the Song Hua River, are used for the festival sculptures & carvings from January till March. It is one of the largest of its kind & most interesting one in the World.
The carved fishermen Ice-lanterns can date back to ancient times. It was said that some fishermen made rough & simple ice-lanterns just for lighting. With the time passed, ice-lanterns embodied their cultural features & gradually the artistic fascination of making of ice-lanterns, ice sculptures started in the 1960th, leading to today's impressive Ice & Snow Festival.
Also in the city you will see everywhere ice carvings of all sizes, besides there are several expositions in different Park. The three major Parks are the Ice World, & the Snow Sculptures parks on Sun Island, they are more artistic, the Ice Carvings at the Zhao Lin Park by Disney in the centre of the City. Harbin Ice & Snow World are gigantic & LED illuminated at Night.
Harbin with population of almost 4.5 million, is heralded as the Ice City for its well-known unbelievably impressive ice & snow recreations during the yearly international “Ice & Snow Festival” from the end of December until beginning of March. Harbin is also well known besides his important historic & economic past & present for China, for its historical Russian heritage, this cultural influence is still notable till today.
Due to the Siberian high & Harbin in the Heilongjiang Province location above 45 degrees north latitude, the city is known for having the most bitterly cold winters among major Chinese cities. Winter Temperatures can drop to below -35° C., when I visited Harbin beginning of January the Temperature varied between -20°C & -26°C below, but with dry air.
As well the large Siberian Tiger & white tigers research centre, with about 500 tigers & a few other species, does an important work to prevent this species from extinction. The Research centre can be visited, tours in small a bus are available, passing through wide natural, separated, sections, however the focus point is to save the tigers.
❄ ❆ ❅🌛 ★ 🌠 🎄 🌲 🔔 🌠 🌲 🎁 🎅 🎁 🌲 🔔 🌲 🎄 🌠 ★ 💤 🌝❅❆❄
🎅 Despite all the complications & inconveniences in 2020,
I wish all of you an exciting, cheerful fairy-tale like festive season.
🌠 Trotz aller Komplikationen & Unannehmlichkeiten im Jahr 2020,
ich wünsche euch allen eine märchenhafte Weihnachtszeit.
🌲 A pesar de todas las complicaciones & inconvenientes en 2020,
yo desearles a todos ustedes un emocionante & encantada temporada festiva,
🎁 Malgré toutes les complications & inconvénients de 2020,
je souhaite à toute une joyeuse & magique saison festive
🔔 Nonostante tutte le complicazioni & gli inconvenienti del 2020,
augurare a tutti voi una emozionante & eccitante stagione di festa.
🎄 Apesar de todas as complicações & inconveniências em 2020,
desejo a todos um conto de fadas do tempo do Natal.
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👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
14 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments
Marvel Tales / Heft-Reihe
Collector's Item Classic
Starring Spider-Man
> The Wings of the Vulture!
Reprint from The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #48 (May 1967)
cover: John Romita
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1986
ex libris MTP
Fairy Tale High
Donna Summer
On a fairy tale high
Don't you believe that your dreams all come true
The fairy tale world inside can bring it to you
You just have to wish, and you'll take off and fly
On a fairy tale high, fairy tale high
Fairy tale high, fairy tale high
On a fairy tale high
Just look around you, the dark clouds are far
Stand on your tiptoes, and reach for a star
As stardust comes sprinkling, it will brighten your eyes
On a fairy tale high, fairy tale high
Fairy tale high, fairy tale high
Revisiting a macro image I took a few years ago, in the rainforest down at Waterfall in the Royal National Park.
A magical morning of photography.
The resident Fairy was out on an urgent tooth pickup call that morning, so I hired this one from Google images.
Hope you like “Fairy Tale High”
Cheers, Mike
Marvel Tales / Heft-Reihe
Starring Spider-Man
> Marked for Destruction by Dr. Doom!
cover: Steve Ditko
Reprint from The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #5 (October 1963)
Marvel Comics Group / USA 1982
ex libris MTP
1. a winters tale, 2. monarch of the glen, 3. November, 4. seasons change with the scenery..., 5. stained glass light, 6. in outer space, 7. rainbow goddess, 8. clematis crown,
9. so much pollen..., 10. hanging on, 11. set in stone, 12. a study in scarlet, 13. Fayette the foxglove fairy, 14. the agapanthus fairy, 15. seeing stars, 16. meet me at the ha ha gate...,
17. beauty at rest..., 18. it's summertime, summertime..., 19. the village, 20. heart of gold, 21. poppy dream, 22. in the beginning..., 23. the ice cream van, 24. midnight bay,
25. fossil beach, 26. the approach of sunset..., 27. beach hut heaven!, 28. be like the flower..., 29. freedom is a precious thing..., 30. spring sunshine, 31. red tornado, 32. out of the darkness...,
33. spring bouquet, 34. winter wait, 35. winter bridge, 36. slate, 37. swan lake sundown, 38. hard frost, 39. as the old year ends..., 40. the way the wind blows,
41. silent night, holy night, 42. Banksy's back!, 43. Rest In Peace, 44. harness the wind, 45. the Midas touch, 46. alone, 47. autumn rainbow, 48. little drops of water,
49. a certain slant of light, 50. sleeping power, 51. to the light house, 52. down by the Seine, 53. under the bridges of Paris, 54. clever elephant, 55. green avenue, 56. under the bridges of Salford with me...,
57. power, 58. cruising the canal, 59. Panopticon for Pendle, 60. moorland stones, 61. passiflora, 62. curiosity, 63. a Lancashire tapestry, 64. tapestry of pink,
65. all the colours of the rainbow, 66. let there be light, 67. all lit up, 68. opulence, 69. morning glory, 70. ouch!, 71. the farm gate, 72. rhapsody in blue
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