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This is a special day to count our blessings and all things that we are grateful for. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Sponge cake, soaked in a light French brandy syrup iced and decorated with meringue. Fillings with homemade custard .
Decorations consist of sugar flowers.
Finish decoration by me with fall leaves and small pumpkin and wrapped swiss chocolate turkey.
Los Angeles. California.
This panorama was merged from 3 hand held shots taken early at morning when the first rays of sunlight were kissing the roccky summit of Westliche Karwendelspitze., Nördliche Linderspitze and some summits behind.
After post processing and merging in Lightroom, I added a layer with an individually optimized gradation curve.
This is my first attempt at something called a “flatlay”! I’ve been wanting to try it for some time now, and decided today is the day....no Santa’s were harmed in the filming of this project, although some appear arthritic and old. That’s because they are! I love my vintage Santas, and think I’ve put them to good use.
This old building operates as a cafe and does a good trade from walkers that venture out in Ilkley. Dating back to 1700 is was built to accommodate a spa with three plunge pools. One his still in use today.
This photo was taken at Tobey Falls on Wilson Stream in Willimantic, Maine. (image 0034) Please also visit: acadiamagic.com.
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Continuing this brief series of cool sights I saw on a single morning outing to Grasslands, the park at my doorstep. These two Moose with their calves were a surprise; I tend to see moose more often in fall and winter. And last year there was considerable noise and commotion as contractors built a new bridge across the Frenchman River - resulting in many wildlife species, including moose, steering clear of the area until things settled down.
But.. they're ba-ack!
I'm so happy. They add an extra touch of wildness to the prairie landscape. Twenty-four years ago, when I first spent some extended time hanging out in this place, moose were a rare sighting. In the interim, they have arrived to occupy the valley, and other prairie locations, too; biologists are not sure why.
My theory? They find ample food and shelter here, where there are no natural predators, no hunting, and an abundance of peace and quiet. Essentially these are the same reasons I moved here full time in 2011. I'd like to think I'm smarter than the average moose. But maybe I'm not.
More to come...
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2024 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Pour cette réalisation, j'ai utilisé mon 50mm avec une grande ouverture, pour un effet tout doux et romantique. La tache rose/orangée n'est pas l'Astre Solaire, mais un nuage sur lequel se reflétait les jolies teintes du soleil couchant...en avant plan, des branches fines d'un arbre d'Eucalyptus...l'imagination a fait le reste!
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This is just one of the unusual rock formations to be found at Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park near Agua Dulce, California. This one could almost pass for a sculpture., But, it’s been there for tens of thousands of years and is a natural volcanic formation. It’s a fascinating place and has been used as a back drop for literally thousands of western movies (all the way back to silent movies) and TV commercials.
This awesome cloud layer near the top of El Capitan lasted for only a few minutes. That's what is great about Yosemite is that the weather and views change by the minute on days like this. Taken in Yosemite National Park, California on April 24th, 2011. A three shot llightly processed HDR using Oloneo's Photoengine.
This handsome hooded merganser sat relaxed and attentive as I was able to capture the moment in the sun.
Though it may not be a consist of SD45's or standard cab's, it is hard to hate anything in this scenery along the Flathead River between Dixon and Paradise. Here in what has to be one of my favorite shots of the Gas local we see the train finally breaking free of the thick cloud blanket and hitting some amazing sun east of Perma as it works west for Paradise and Pipeline, with snow capped mountains in the background adding just that little touch of pure beauty.
This shot is taken early in the morning in the Netherlands. With the colors of autumn and the fog it's a nice silenced landscape. Just one cylist cycling on the road to "nowhere".
f/8.0 I ISO200 I 28mm
The Netherlands
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I think this is one of my favorite images from my Yosemite trip (believe me, narrowing down my photos was a difficult job). I know this view of Yosemite is one of the most over-photographed places on earth, but the difference in this image is that I saw it with my own eyes, took the time to get there at 5am and was able to watch this glorious morning unfold.
To my fellow photographers: get up early, go outside and take it all in. Leave your camera at home if you like, just concentrate on the majesty of this earth for an hour or two!
This little one was puffed up this evening in late sunshine light and temperatures around freezing. Recommend zooming in large to take in those feather details.
A slightly yellower version of an Eastern Dwarf Tree-Frog. Their colour can differ due to environmental factors from greens, through yellowish to fawn and brown. A very common species of tree-frog, ranging from Cairns, in tropical Queensland, to Ulladulla in NSW. The ones posted today live in ornamental water-lily and lotus pools in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens at Mt Coot-tha.
This gray squirrel was evidently not nice enough earlier in the year since it doesn't appear that Santa gave it the mittens and boots it was wishing for on Christmas day. That will teach it a thing or two about stealing sunflower seeds at bird feeders😁.
This is my nephew, Ben, clearing the frozen river for skating on New Years Day 2014.
I have posted the photo previously (see Comment section), but I have since removed one other distracting person from the photo and otherwise reprocessed the image a bit, I think it makes it more effective. I like it anyway.
I wish it were a bit tighter on Ben, but I wanted to keep the overhead wooden footbridge in the frame ... and as a frame too, I guess.
This is from a French story I had to create for my French class. Obviously, the tornado isn't real. I made my sister be a model and act almost like Alice. :) It was fun. Starting to get inspiration back to take photos again.
This is the link in where I found the tornado. www.ok.gov/oid/images/tornado.jpg
My day along the Ontario Midland is winding down as the crew arrives at Sodus, NY to spot a gas car and put the girls to bed. It's a blazing 74 degrees now and the sun is heating my back pretty good, but of course you know the rest. As the train approaches 150 yards away in purrrrrfect light, I get "C-Fed" by the smallest "pe***" in the sky. It hurt. It hurt real bad, but at least today's darkrooms are capable of breathing some life into an epic failure, but it it still hurts......
This year marks the 200th birthday of this great Austrian composer. Here you can see the Bruckner bust in Vienna's Stadtpark, which was unveiled three years after Bruckner's death.
Bruckner ‘was an Austrian composer of the Romantic period as well as an organist and university teacher. Only recognised by his contemporaries late in life, he was nevertheless one of the most important and innovative composers of his time and his works had a great influence on music history well into the 20th century.
His most important and probably best-known compositions are his large-scale eleven symphonies.’
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Bruckner
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSGOaTuAesY&t=3693s
Brahms zu Bruckner am Wirtshaustisch: "Ihre Symphonien, mein lieber Bruckner, versteh' ich nicht!" Darauf Bruckner nach Verstreichen einer Schrecksekunde: "Akkurat so geht's ma mit Ihnare!" www.derstandard.at/adblockwall/story/3000000234993/wie-an...
This time of year in the Sonoran desert we rarely get any rain. We don't even get many clouds. The result of that is colorless sunrises and sunsets. But yesterday morning, lo and behold, some cloudiness to the northeast was at the right altitude to catch the rays of the rising sun. I was lucky enough to notice what was happening.
This is an image of part of the Veil Nebula - a Supernova remnant found in the constellation of Cygnus. While often imaged in narrowband this image is a broadband version.
Present in this area of the complex is the Witch's Broom Nebula, NGC 6960 and Pickering's Triangle.
The filamentous nature of the nebula is due to the interstellar shockwave from the supernova causing glowing filaments of excited interstellar material.
The red colour is due to atomic hydrogen and the teal colour is due to oxygen. These being separated into filaments.
The blazing star is giant 52 Cygni and is not connected to the nebula, its position being a line of sight effect.
The Witch's broom is around 35 light-years across and lies at a distance of 1400 light-years.
Pickering's Triangle is the fainter of the two and has no formal NGC number although NGC 6979 is occasionally used as reference.
Although imaged last October due to personal circumstances I have only just got around to analysing the data.
As always many thanks for looking!
Imaged with an Esprit 120ED and a ZWO 2600MC camera. Esprit matched focal reducer.
A total of 2hrs Exposure with temp. matched darks, flats & dark flats.
Organic bread straight from the oven. One loaf is about 50 cm in diameter :)
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Japanese Itoh hybrid peonies (intersectional peonies) are a cross between tree and herbaceous peonies, offering the best traits of both: large, 8-inch, long-lasting flowers (yellows, reds, pinks, corals) on strong, 3-foot shrubby stems that don't need staking. They are extremely cold-hardy, disease-resistant, and bloom for 3–4 weeks.
Coral Sunset Intersectional Itoh Peony .
A sunset in a flower! Aptly named for its awe-inspiring transformation from a radiant, vivid coral through a range of peaches, and finally, a creamy white colour, the flower is a masterpiece at every step of this sunset, and one might argue a bloom only improves with age. Unique from other coral varieties in that it opens with the most intense coral colour and has petals that are more ruffled, which perhaps contribute to a fuller appearance. Has a lower, more compact growing habit than Coral Charm. Mass plantings are recommended as flowers at different colour stages provide a visual riot in the landscape.
Side buds are possible, extending the bloom period. A favourite of the peony garden, this outstanding peony produces intense sunset coral, semi-double blossoms with rose overtones and a fluffy deep yellow stamens in the center. The lightly fragrant flowers are long lasting in fresh bouquets. ‘Coral Sunset’ blooms early in the peony season, around late spring in Ontario It is highly prized for its exemplary plant habit. and by florist as cut flower in bouquets.
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This happened tonight. First time ever - after this cat has lived with us for eight months - he climbed up on Dave's lap, took a few minutes to get comfortable and went to sleep. Sound the trumpets!
I created this image by overlaying a photo I took of a Hurricane, Lancaster and Spitfire plane, over a field of poppies to remember Armistice Day.
Armistice Day, later known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 5:45 am for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. But, according to Thomas R. Gowenlock, an intelligence officer with the U.S. First Division, shelling from both sides continued for the rest of the day, ending only at nightfall.
The armistice initially expired after a period of 36 days and had to be extended several times. A formal peace agreement was reached only when the Treaty of Versailles was signed the following year.
Remembrance Day Poppies are a symbol of respect and remembrance of those who died in World War I. This poppy flower meaning came about because the the field poppy, hardy yet delicate, was a common part of the landscape on the Western Front during the Great War. After being heavily bombed and scarred, the land did not lend itself to growing much. In his famous poem, “In Flanders Fields,” Canadian-born John McCrae wrote about this pretty red flower that grew over the graves of those who had given the ultimate sacrifice and that beautified the devastated countryside.
This is all I need. After Kayla's diagnosis of a brain tumor this summer and a big setback just a few weeks ago I've been given the gift of another Christmas with her.