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The annex to the Temple Court building I shared.Instead of having to scroll down to look for it,see the Flickr link for the photo flic.kr/p/DtZ1n4
Rue Emile Zola is mainly made up of a row of colourful half-timbered houses dating from the 16th century. These buildings were rebuilt after the violent fire which broke out in the heart of the medieval town, destroying the main quarters of the town in 1524. Although very few buildings from the medieval period remain, this lane has retained this historical aspect and demonstrates an overview of what the town was like at the time of the famous "Champagne Fairs".
The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, its migration occasionally reaches northern Europe.
This gentleman was playing the role of a well-to-do merchant during a recent U.S. Civil War-era reenactment in Port Sanilac, Michigan.
HBM (Happy Beard Monday)! :-)
Flickr friends, I'm back after a brief break and will be catching up with your latest images soon.
Steam railway station at the top of Snowdon mountain, visibility was poor over the mountain with rain and mist.
"It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
Quote - Vaclav Havel
The beginning of the other side of the staircase of the Academie voor Muziek, Woord en Dans (Academy for Music, Word and Dance) in Mortsel (Belgium).
I exclaimed "the Queen" in my mind when seeing this giant dragonfly elegantly laying eggs from the surface of the water like posing a dance. Later on I did some research to find out the name of this dragonfly species is "Emperor Dragonfly" or "Blue Emperor" - I think they deserve these names!
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If you are curious about why I made this post:
I made this post to deliver my homework commitment to www.flickr.com/photos/vincent__buuron/, who ordered me a task to take "something involving a natural mirror, like an insect flying above the water, and it's reflection", in reference to his post www.flickr.com/photos/vincent__buuron/51323363398/in/date....
I have to say that I finally completed this task today but the photographs were not as exciting/beautiful as the old photos I took some years back. (I realized that this year I have missed the best month to take photographs of dragonflies and damselflies to lay eggs from the surface of the water) Therefore I am posting this image from 2018 instead ;-)
The Moab Canyon Pathway is a paved 12.7 mile (20.4 KM) mixed-use trail - here it's crossing the Colorado River in Moab Canyon.
I see these 3 white beauties so often on my commute to the next town (Castlebar) going to work, shopping etc. So I finally decided to stop the car and walk back with my camera. I feel as though they somehow keep the spirit of this derelict old bungalow alive.
The 1912 Greenwich foot tunnel is 504 meters (1,654 ft) long crossing under the crosses beneath the River Thames. I thought it would make for a good photo subject - once I waited for all the people to clear.....
The working water wheel at the Killhope Mining Museum, also known as the North of England Lead Mining Museum. The Museum stands on the site of the former Park Level Mine near Cowshill, County Durham. It is being restored to show the workings of a 19th-century lead mine. The water wheel was used to power machinery to extract the lead from the lead ore.
The Museum is situated in the heart of the North Pennines, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, an area that, in 2003, was designated the first Geopark in Great Britain.
I stayed with a couple who like exploring old mines so I did go down a short length of a nearby old lead mine.
Best viewed enlarged. I processed the image with Photoshop using Silver Efex Pro 2, one of the Nik Filters.
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The new sledge rezzer awesome shelter from Never Totally Dead.
Coming out on November 16, 2020 at Cosmopolitan.
You can see it here at Solus:
The Kelpies are 30-metre-high horse-head sculptures depicting kelpies, located between Falkirk and Grangemouth, standing next to a new extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal, and near River Carron, in The Helix, a new parkland project built to connect 16 communities in the Falkirk Council Area, Scotland.
The imposing appearance against the stormy background suggests that this is the weather god. I know that among the Germanic tribes his name was Thor. But here in Italy, with the Romans? I read in Wikipedia that the Romans believed in the Syrian weather god Iupiter Dolichenus. After they took the city of Doliche, their supreme deity, Jupiter, inherited the office of weather god. As if he didn't have enough on his plate already! In Christianity, Peter holds something like the office of weather god. When I took a picture of Peter?
I just tried to see what the negative version of 'Art' (see first comment box, if you missed it yesterday) would look like………
Then I also turned the picture around to make it more look like a place on the other side. Big fun ;-))
You can see the fences much better now, so …...
Happy Fence Friday!
The summer wind came blowin' in from across the sea
It lingered there, to touch your hair and walk with me
All summer long we sang a song and then we strolled that golden sand
Two sweethearts and the summer wind
F.Sinatra
The large breakwater that protects the harbour entrance of Porto Maurizio on the Italian Riviera is slightly curved, so that the lighthouse at its end is only half visible at first.
The Quiraing is a landslip on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The whole of the Trotternish Ridge escarpment was formed by a great series of landslips; the Quiraing is the only part of the slip still moving
The morning sunlight is burning off the last bit of mist on the lake around this boathouse. Sometimes you have all the time in the world to set up a picture. Other times you only have a few seconds, or a minute. That was the case here, the mist disappearing very fast as I came upon this scene. I took this picture while I was out kayaking.
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The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it catches after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows.
The Trees - Rush
There is unrest in the forest
Trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas
The trouble with the maples
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade
There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream, "Oppression"
And the oaks just shake their heads
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
They say, "The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light"
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw
“Hunger gives flavor to the food.”
Nutmeg. Old Wooden Chair
Nutmeg. Rustic Industrial Table Brown
PLAAKA DoughBowl B
PLAAKA DoughBowl A
PLAAKA LemonPot
PLAAKA LemonBowl
PLAAKA FlowerCake
PLAAKA HangingOnion
PLAAKA HangingTomato
PLAAKA HardBread Slice
PLAAKA SmallLime
PLAAKA FlankSteak
PLAAKA Artichoke
PLAAKA Artichokes Bottle
PLAAKA HangingRedpepper
PLAAKA HangingGarlic
PLAAKA FigSalada
PLAAKA Cut Lemon
PLAAKA HerbBowl
PLAAKA BentWoodCutleryStand A
PLAAKA BentWoodCutleryStand B
:CP: Occitanie Curtains Cloud
LB_Bougainvillea{Animated}Seasons
LB_TulipTree{Animated}Seasons
[ keke ] clover grass . spring . swaying
{anc} fringe carpet {white} 1Li
The Dark Angel
They flow down her cheeks like a river, and roll off the end of her chin. She gently brushes the tears away with the back of her hand. She looks out into the graveyard that is her home, that is her life. Her head and shoulders bow as if she can no longer hold up the weight of her world any longer.
In the darkness between the trees, sitting on a broken crypt is The Dark Angel. Her once silent tears, have turned to shuddering sobs. The heartbreaking sound fills the darkened mists of the graveyard, and even the creatures of the night are silent, as The Dark Angel cries...
...she cries until there are no more tears left to shed. As the southern breeze brushes her hair, she rises from the crypt and slowly walks through the dead trees, a tiny jar grasped tightly in her small hands. She walks deep into the cemetery, past broken and forgotten headstones, to a lonely mausoleum. She takes the tiny jar, that holds the last piece of her broken heart, and hides it deep inside the small crypt. She slowly peers into the darkness of the night, and satisfied her heart is finally safe, flies away...
CLH - 2008
The Loggerhead shrike is a medium-sized songbird endemic to North America. It is nicknamed the butcherbird after its carnivorous tendencies, as it consumes prey such as amphibians, small birds, and even small mammals, and some prey ends up displayed and stored at a site, for example in a tree. Due to its small size and weak talons, this predatory bird relies on impaling its prey upon thorns or barbed wire for easier consumption.
Loggerhead shrikes are found across southern Canada, much of the USA, and Mexico. Northern populations are migratory while birds from the southern part of their range are sedentary. Loggerhead shrikes require an open habitat with an area to forage, elevated perches, and nesting sites. They are often found in open pastures or grasslands and prefer red-cedar and hawthorn trees for nesting. The hawthorn's thorns and the cedar's pin-like needles protect and conceal these birds from predators. They may also nest in fence-rows or hedge-rows near open pastures and require elevated perches as lookout points for hunting.
Loggerhead shrikes are carnivores (insectivores). They feed on insects, but also consume arachnids, reptiles, amphibians, rodents, bats and small birds. Due to their small size in proportion to the size of their prey, shrikes must rely on specialized adaptations to facilitate their hunting. The powerful, hooked beak allows them to sever the neck of a small vertebrate. Larger prey are subjected to impaling, in which they are pushed down into a sharp projection, such as a thorn or barbed wire. Shrikes can then tear off flesh by using the projection as an anchor. They may also use the thorn to fasten and store their food to return to at a later time.
I found this killer along Joe Overstreet Road in Osceola County, Florida.
...City
While Rome is the Eternal City one might call Berlin the eternal building site. Or The Unfinished City. Construction cranes are as prominently featured in Berlin's skyline as sights. And it can happen that, if you haven't visited a place in a longer while ("easy" in pandemic times), you'll find old, familiar buildings gone, while new buildings seem to pop up out of nowhere everywhere. I've taken this image last week after a visit to the Futurium (a "House of the Future", opened in 2019 – I'll post images from there soon); in the foreground you can see the river Spree, and the glass building on the left is Berlin's Central Station, the Hauptbahnhof (HBF). Noteworthy: The HBF's upper platforms aren't fully roofed, because the Deutsche Bahn (DB; the German Railway Company) wanted to open the HBF in time for the 2006 World Football Championship by all means, and it would have taken until 2008 to finish the roof. The irony: All the construction parts needed to finish the roof were already manufactured. To this date these parts are stored on the premises of Berlin's East Station. Will the roof ever be finished? Who knows... The construction site you see in front of the HBF has nothing to do with the HBF's roof. It is that of the new S 21 suburban railway line, which is scheduled for completion in 2022. Allegedly...
At first, I wanted to process this as a monochrome, because the scene is rather busy. But I liked all these colours. So I thought "embrace the chaos, embrace the construction site and all those cranes", and do it in colour ;) The final image is an HDR made from three images (in HDR Efex), with further processing / sliding steps in Color Efex.
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, stay safe and healthy, and take care!
Die Unvollendete
Rom ist ja bekanntlich die Ewige Stadt. Und Berlin könnte man getrost als die Ewige Baustelle bezeichnen. Oder auch als Die Unvollendete. Baukräne gehören zur Berliner Skyline wie seine Sehenswürdigkeiten. Gerade in Pandemiezeiten, wenn man manche Orte schon lange nicht mehr besucht hat, kann es dann auch passieren, dass alte, vertraute Gebäude plötzlich verschwunden sind, während allerorten Neues entsteht. Dieses Foto des Hauptbahnhofs mit einem Seitenarm der Spree im Vordergrund habe ich vergangene Woche nach einem Besuch des Futuriums (2019 eröffnet, Fotos von dort zeige ich demnächst) gemacht. Die Baustelle am Europaplatz, die Ihr hier seht, bedeutet allerdings nicht, dass die Deutsche Bahn nun doch das Dach für die oberen Bahnsteige des Hauptbahnhofs verlängern würde. Die dafür nötigen Bauteile, längst fertiggestellt, lagern weiterhin (hoffentlich gut verstaut) am Berliner Ostbahnhof. Diese Baustelle gehört zur neuen S-Bahnlinie S21, für die ein unterirdischer Bahnsteig gebaut wird. Geplante Fertigstellung: 2022. Warten wir's ab.
Ich wollte das Foto erst als SW / getöntes Monochrom bearbeiten, weil hier ja ganz schön viel los ist. SW sah mir aber zu trüb aus, weshalb ich bei Farbe geblieben bin. Das Foto habe ich in HDR Efex aus einer 3er-Belichtungsreihe erstellt und für Sliders Sunday in Color Efex noch den einen oder anderen Filter (ich weiß wirklich nicht mehr, welche Filter genau) angewendet.
Habt einen guten Wochenstart und passt weiterhin gut auf Euch auf!
The rowers at Kissing Point.
Putney - western Sydney.
The view looking south-west across the Parramatta River.
Across the river (on the left) is Rocky Point and 'Rivendell' - the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital, opened in 1893.
In the far distance is the suburb of Rhodes with, amongst other things, a giant Ikea store, lol.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
A Legacy 'Food' filter from the Flickr Photo Editor.
In the heart of the forest.
A forest of Japanese Maples.
Many of the Japanese Maples are 140 years of age.
Similar to me.
The Zen Walk
Yengo Sculpture Gardens.
29 Queens Avenue, Mount Wilson
The Blue Mountains.
I visited Yengo Gardens last Saturday, 6th May, 2023.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
A Legacy 'Candy' filter from the Flickr Photo Editor.
The long passageway, filed with light and spiderwebs, then the watcher that is at the end of the passage.
Click on image
Happy Fence Friday!!
HFF!!
The story of the Alamo is a strange story. General Houston told Co-Commanders, Bowie and Travis to abandon the Alamo. They didn't. Santa Anna, much like Napoleon and Waterloo, showed up without his artillery. Unfortunately, for the defenders of the Alamo, Santa's artillery showed up and it was on the 13th day..Hummm. Indeed, an unlucky number that day. If they disobeyed orders, than why are they looked upon as heroes. Because they took the blunt of the attack and slowed Santa Anna down while Houston was busy gathering men to make a stand. Which, is why I speak English and not Spanish..:)) Here's what the Internet says
he Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States), killing all of the Texian defenders. Santa Anna's cruelty during the battle inspired many Texians—both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States—to join the Texian Army. Buoyed by a desire for revenge, the Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the revolution.
Several months previously, Texians had driven all Mexican troops out of Mexican Texas. About 100 Texians were then garrisoned at the Alamo. The Texian force grew slightly with the arrival of reinforcements led by eventual Alamo co-commanders James Bowie and William B. Travis. On February 23, approximately 1,500 Mexicans marched into San Antonio de Béxar as the first step in a campaign to retake Texas. For the next 10 days, the two armies engaged in several skirmishes with minimal casualties. Aware that his garrison could not withstand an attack by such a large force, Travis wrote multiple letters pleading for more men and supplies, but the Texians were reinforced by fewer than 100 men.
In the early morning hours of March 6, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. After repelling two attacks, the Texians were unable to fend off a third attack. As Mexican soldiers scaled the walls, most of the Texian soldiers withdrew into interior buildings. Defenders unable to reach these points were slain by the Mexican cavalry as they attempted to escape.