This is a well known and popular vineyard in Niagara on the Lake. They have a great dining experience.

It is across from the Niagara River Parkway Trail, which Boucle and I love to visit in the fall for the fall colors.

This is a late summer bloom on a ridgeline that gets a lot of deep snow.

Sunrise over Normanton-on-Soar on Sunday morning, with the mist rolling in and the rising suns golden hues colouring the sky it was quite unforgettable

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I like this time. There are so many colors and the world fragrants so specially...

Taken on a quickie Flickr Walk at the old Fort Snelling army base... nice place eh.

This take is way better and he went through more to get it: www.flickr.com/photos/ptrob59/2360807340/

This piece was inspired by a Youtube video a Deaf friend showed me.... the only clear sign in the video was "I love you"..she asked me to draw what i thought it was about.. I perceived it to be about a deaf child growing up to hearing parents, how the parents of an infant use great facial expressions to interact , and the parent child relationshipin takes place in a very visual way, but then as time passes the parents withdraw from using so much expression, expecting to transition over to an audio world ::hence the clock pulling the Alexander Graham Bell mask over the faces. But using Bell as this polarized icon through the dual view point of Deaf Culture, and Hearing Culture, the piece came to be about the relationship between Deaf culture and American society ... The plane image is the X1 rocket...it was the first plane to break the sound barrier. i thought it fitting since the hand shape in ASL for "i love you", and "plane" are the same.... the paper airplane image hints back at the rocket in the foreground, and means the American school system's many painful attempts to educate Deaf children... the parent figures are shown signing behind the back denoting the parents feelings towards Deafness, and reluctance to embrace Deaf culture. An alarming percentage of hearing parents who have Deaf children do not learn sign language ..and so i hope the drawing asks the question... "It it logical to strap an infant upon this plane as a method to break the sound barrier and launch the child into hearing culture without choice, when the parents could mearly learn to sign and become a part of Deaf culture with the child...?" the shadows of the parents and infant are connected, while actually the patents are shown not even touching the same ground as the child, emphasizing the ignorant concepts of a society that believes all Deaf learn to read lips perfectly and this makes them blend effortlessly into their hearing world.. the snail is a near identical image to the cochlea inside the human ear, so coming from the shadow of the x1 rocket it reminds that in reality, lip reading and the oral method are an enormously slow and grueling process...and also hints at the speed with which society has really taken the time to intelligently consider Deafness, and finally questions the latest modern scientific approach to Deafness the Cochlear implant..that the face of the snail hints at the "i love you" handshape, and is turning around suggests that a loving society might try a different approach. the ears of the parent figures are shown as closed eyes....meaning that from the deaf child's perspective, the parents hearing causes them to not pay attention with their eyes...the scuba divers show Deaf culture,, as the beautiful silent world it is.. since Deaf scuba divers can literally use sign language to communicate underwater, where hearing people just akwardly gesture, and have to wait to be above the surface to communicate.....i hope this image would be striking and urge hearing people to stop and think deeper about Deaf culture, and the many wonderful aspects of life hearing causes them to miss....

This is the last view I had of the Grand Canyon before plunging into its abyss for a descent of 1400m. It is a very beautiful park without being my favorite in the region.

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Lago di Misurina:

Il lago di Misurina è il lago naturale più grande del Cadore e si trova a 1 754 m s.l.m. a Misurina, frazione di Auronzo di Cadore (Belluno). Il perimetro è di 2,6 km mentre la profondità è di 5 metri.

A est del lago si trovano degli impianti di risalita, e la catena dei Cadini di Misurina (Dolomiti di Sesto), attraversata dal sentiero attrezzato Aldo Bonacossa. A nord del lago, prendendo la strada che porta alle Tre Cime di Lavaredo, si trova il Lago d'Antorno. A sud invece si trova il Gruppo del Sorapiss (Dolomiti Ampezzane).

Presso il lago passa l'Alta via n. 3, che partendo da Villabassa giunge a Longarone.

Cadini di Misurina:

I Cadini di Misurina sono un gruppo delle Dolomiti orientali,in provincia di Belluno, a ovest di Auronzo di Cadore, a nord-est di Cortina d'Ampezzo e a sud di Dobbiaco, in posizione sovrastante il lago di Misurina, la cui vetta più alta si erge a 2.839 m s.l.m. con la Cima Cadin di san Lucano.

Fanno parte della sottosezione Dolomiti di Sesto, di Braies e d'Ampezzo e appartengono al comune di Auronzo di Cadore. Il termine Cadini deriva dal cadorino Ciadìn che può essere tradotto in valloni, di cui la catena è piena e rende l'insieme delle cime un labirinto.

La catena montuosa è attraversata dall'Alta via n. 4 e dal sentiero attrezzato Aldo Bonacossa, che partendo dalla sponda medirionale del lago, arriva sino alle Tre Cime di Lavaredo. La particolare geomorfologia che distingue e caratterizza così profondamente i Cadini di Misurina, permette comunque di attraversare il gruppo da svariate direttrici cosicché, salendo e scendendo dalle loro forcelle.

Il sentiero attrezzarto Durissini permette ad esempio di compiere il giro completo del ramo di San Lucano. Si tratta di un percorso ad anello, con partenza al rifugio Fonda-Savio (2367 m), che attraversa in sequenza la forcella della Torre (2400 m), la forcella Sabbiosa (2440 m), la forcella Cadin Deserto (2400 m), la forcella Cristina, la forcella de la Neve (2471 m) e per ultima la forcella del Nevaio (2620 m), con un dislivello totale di circa 1.000 m.

This was shot from the MDH. There are 3 Red Mountains in a row.

The biggest problem with taking photos on MDH is there are many beautiful views with no pull off spot. There are still many beautiful spots to shoot, but many you just have to drive by.

This capture was taken at the end of an exciting day through the Vinales Valley.

Well worth the 2 hour taxi drive to this spectacular region in Cuba.

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this is my wife's idea of fun on a saturday.

This species can be found in most of European countries. It mainly occurs in wet meadows and forests, but its narrow habitat is restricted to the range of its host plant.

Abia nitens can reach a length of 10–12 millimetres (0.39–0.47 in). The adults have a large body with a showy metallic green-golden or bronze abdomen. The thorax is black, with bluish sheen and it is slightly hairy. Wings are transparent, with brown markings in the middle. Antennae are yellow-reddish, while other species in this genus have totally or partially black antennae. Legs are yellow, with black thighs at their base.

Adults can be seen from May to October feeding on nectar of Devil's-bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis), of Ferulago campestris and of the Giant Fennel (Ferula communis).

Larva can reach a length of about 30 millimetres (1.2 in). They have a sandy background colour with black and yellow spots. They are oligophagous, mainly feeding between June and September on Devil's-bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis), Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis), cream scabious (Scabiosa ochroleuca ) and on various Dipsacus species.

This is a bicolour, HOO image, with 4.2 Hours each of Hydrogen and Oxygen-3. Taken at F 4.8, FL 384mm over two nights.

I love how this rotation of the photo looks like a giant hand is grabbing the Crescent...

This city is unbelievable. So amazing, lively. Noisy, crazy, but so charming. You can't help but fall in love with the place. Tomorrow we head to Naples for a few days.

Tiny church, in between two holes of a golf course, Daymer Bay, Cornwall

To survive war, you have to become war.

This War Machine is pretty great. I was skeptical because the Toybiz version is probably one of the best in that era, but this figure does mark an improvement.

This is a photo of the tail of a cygnet swimming on the pond in Arklow . He had his feather up slightly and just kept swimming past i like how the light was shining on his feathers and how they are not pure white yet .

This is the rest of the sunset on Friday! Note that these were not taken on the bayou but at a park in an open field! Framing??? They could all be better framed but since there is nothing there but open field it is the sky that is the most interesting part of the scene and so that is why I have included as much sky as possible in each shot! It’s just difficult to believe that the Egg Drop Soup turned into the sky in the Grand Finale! At one point I just figured that the whole thing was dying and thought about packing up all of my gear and heading home! Figured that I would stick it out and see what developed! There were some subtle colors behind me but nothing close to what was being displayed by the clouds where the sun was setting!

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This isn't a wonderful photo, but it is so summery, and so common around our house, here, for fruits to be ripening in a bag, that I went ahead and posted it.

Those are some sort of green plums in there.. I had never seen them before, and I can't remember the name of them. If we love them, I am sure I will learn their name!

This remarkable Romanesque work depicts the Virgin Mary on her throne of glory and Christ on her knees who blesses the world with the Book of the Divine Word. The face of the Virgin appears filled with majestic gravity.

The statue is in cedar and dates from the 12th century. Its name comes from the color it had before being repainted and gilded in the 19th century.

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Notre-Dame La Brune

Cette oeuvre romane remarquable représente la Vierge Marie sur son trône de gloire et le Christ sur ses genoux qui bénit le monde avec le Livre de la Parole Divine. Le visage de la Vierge apparaît rempli d'une gravité majestueuse.

La statue est en cèdre et date du 12ème siècle. Son nom vient de la couleur qu'elle avait avant d'être repeinte et dorée au 19ème siècle.

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Abbaye Saint-Philibert - Tournus - Bourgogne du Sud / South Burgundy - France

This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope features the Grand Design Spiral, NGC 3631, located some 53 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major. The “arms” of grand design spirals appear to wind around and into the galaxy’s nucleus.

Close inspection of NGC 3631’s grand spiral arms reveals dark dust lanes and bright star-forming regions along the inner part of the spiral arms. Star formation in spirals is similar to a traffic jam on the interstate. Like cars on the highway, slower moving matter in the spiral’s disk creates a bottleneck, concentrating star-forming gas and dust along the inner part of their spiral arms. This traffic jam of matter can get so dense that it gravitationally collapses, creating new stars (here seen in bright blue-white).

The image uses data collected from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. The color blue represents visible wavelengths of blue light, and the color orange represents infrared light.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Filippenko (University of California - Berkeley), and D. Sand (University of Arizona); Image Processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)

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Population 165.000 ( Dec. 31. 2015 ) ( Metropolitan Region `Bremen / Oldenburg´ 2.4 million people )

This small waterfall with some autumn leaves caught my attention as I passed by. I could use a ND filter to get a longer exposure

This is Batman. The title is a reference to Koko the gorilla, who was taught American sign language. She combined words that she knew to refer to a kitten as "all ball". I've always loved that.

This is my post and im not shifting!!!

A foggy afternoon in Coin-du-Banc (Percé), Québec, Canada. This marsh is very popular with bird watchers, although I tended to see mostly sea gulls.

This image was taken while travelling through the Pyrenees.

This small tree/ shrub is just covered in Bumblebees from dawn to dusk. 🐝

This is fan made music video I have been working on for quite some time on and off due to school. I wanted to know what my graphic design peeps thought about this, so I decided to upload a preview of it. The storyline behind the video is showing relationships fall in their own special ways. "Bleed Out", a song by Jason Derulo off of his amazing album Future History, is such an emotional song IMO, and I really wanted to capture the song in video. In this preview, you will see just small snippets of what the full video will be. I hope you like it and please give me any critiques you may have or just tell me what you think about it. This is just uploaded to my Flickr only, as I want to keep the happenings of this video away from YouTube at the moment. :P Plus I want to show my graphic design community another passion of mine, which is video editing! :D I really can't wait to hear what you all think of it!

Good Monday morning everyone and hope a great weekend was had by all.

I was very anxious to get out with this new lens and here is the first image I took with it.

There is very little post processing, very little save the crop, and could not be happier with the results, a bit heavy yes, but otherwise a fabulous piece of equipment, have a great day and thank you for visiting, and listening.

This portrait was quite close, but I like these photos!

This Gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) sang for a bit after its bird bath session. I find it curious how some will always go for the bird bath while others prefer the pond's stream. There doesn't seem to be any consistencies.

This white-breasted nuthatch is reacting by saying "Say what?" to the rather shocking news that a major winter storm is headed our way. When I woke up this morning, I couldn't believe the weather forecast that said we are currently under a winter storm watch for Wednesday. So goes spring in the Driftless Region where it was sunny and 60 F (15 C) today with heavy snow on the way.

This little guy was pigging out on seeds and singing his heart out at the same time!

This is my first attempt at combining Ha data with LRGB. I would like to add five more hours of luminance and 30 minutes each for G and B channels.

Equipment

Tele Vue NP101is/LCF

ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (HaLRGB)

Losmandy G11

Software

Planned and captured with NINA

Autoguiding with PHD2

Processing with PixInsight

Composition

Ha: 25 subs at 420s each

L: 24 subs at 90s each

R: 64 subs at 120s each

G: 48 subs at 120s each

B: 48 subs at 120s each

Total Integration time: 8:51

This is my my favourite garden for many reasons. Firstly I have may happy memories of it. The garden is arranged in four separate areas. Main lawn and patio, Lower lawn, greenhouse and apple trees. The third section in the front and parking area flanked with borders. The last area is gravelled and contains the shed. There are around 200ft of beech hedge including the 100ft section along the main road which is formally cut. The garden has a wide range of plants, trees and shrubs. My parents have created this garden from nothing, it has taken them over thirty years. I have been granted permission to photograph their garden this year and use the photographs on Flickr, mostly because their house is for sale and will appear on the Holters (www.holters.co.uk) website soon in the LD2 area.

This was the first shot I took with my new lens and the last shot that I took with my ND4 soft grad as it shattered of the rocks. Reasonably pleased with the results, note to one self dont track backwards on slippy rocks!

This is one of those trippy lights with optical fibre on top of a small lamp, which changes colours. The effect is thanks to the ceilling fan.

This is one of the first Petras. She has the small neck knob and no markings. She wears a pontytail and has curly bangs.

She wears a Boutique outfit from 1976 (#5814).

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This image was created in camera it is not a digital manipulation. I placed a set of crystal spheres on a mirror in front of a black background. Then I light painted using a tangled string of fairy lights with various motion and exposure times

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This was taken [literally] in my neighbor's pool. I was feeling risque, so I brought the camera in. Luckily, it didn't get splashed. The sun was just on the horizon getting ready to set. The beach ball was there and I just captured the moment.

This is possibly the first idea I had to use the Lowell Sphere design on when I first created it about ten years ago. It took me until last year to actually get started on it, and it's been sitting around since then waiting to be published.

This is mostly based on the 1952 Wienermobile.

Chrome credit goes to my dad.

This is dedicated to our mucker Plastic Jesus........

Check out some of his pics on Flickr.

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The little man's grandmother put this large pond and stream, complete with waterfalls, in her backyard since our last visit.

This is one of the most photographed tree in the United Kingdom, this is the lone tree of llyn padarn in Llanberis North Wales.

J aime beaucoup cette chanson de

** Tina Arena **

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J'ai tant caché mes différences

Sous des airs ou des faux semblants

J'ai cru que d'autres pas de danses

Me cacheraient aux yeux des gens

Je n'ai jamais suivi vos routes

J'ai voulu tracer mon chemin

Pour aller plus haut, aller plus haut

Ou l'on oublie ses souvenirs

Aller plus haut, aller plus haut

Se rapprocher de l'avenir

J'ai perdu tant de fois la trace

Des rêves pour lesquels je vivais

Je n'ai pas su te dire je t'aime

Seulement te garder

Il faut aussi dire ses doutes

Et les poser dans d'autres mains

Pour aller plus haut, aller plus haut

Et dessiner des souvenirs

Aller plus haut, aller plus haut

Et croire encore à l'avenir

Pour aller plus haut, aller plus haut

Et dessiner des souvenirs

Aller plus haut, aller plus haut

Et croire encore à l'avenir

Aller plus haut, aller plus haut

Se rapprocher de l'avenir.

As I hid my differences

Air or under false pretenses

I thought that others do not dance

Me hiding in the eyes of people

I have never followed your route

I wanted to trace my way

To go higher, go higher

Or we forget memories

Jump higher, go higher

Move towards the future

I lost both times the trace

Dreams where I lived

I have not been able to tell you I love you

Only you keep

It must also be doubts

And ask them in other hands

To go higher, go higher

And draw memories

Jump higher, go higher

And believe in the future

To go higher, go higher

And draw memories

Jump higher, go higher

And believe in the future

Jump higher, go higher

Move towards the future.

Domi