This deserves to go up in its own upload. I've heard of these UMMs before, they're quite an obscurity and I never did think I'd be able to spot one. Well, I did yesterday, completely by chance! Spots like this are what I look forward to whenever I go to a new area. The idea that anything, could be lurking anywhere.

This one has been without MOT since 2007, but is apparently in the hands of an enthusiast who has had it 20 years. Let's hope this magnificent Portuguese weapon will live on.

K45 ESE

This one has US-spec headlights and side marker lights indicating 1968 model or later. Probably a 280SL model. Seen driving by on Tombstone Canyon (Main Street) in Bisbee, Arizona.

This is my day 4 build for RebelLUG’s Vignweek contest. The prompt was to create a micro scale version of a set. I decided to go with Adventurers set 5978 as it had a lot of fun details to build.

On this Day, on the 26/11/2008, the day of Terrorist Attack on Mumbai.

Above is the image of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower a prestigious luxury hotel located at Colaba near the Gateway of India at Mumbai

On 26/11/2008, the day of the concerted terrorists' attack on Mumbai in which as many as 166 people died, the above hotel borne the brunt of the attack.

On the second anniversary of the terrorists' attack we remembered and pay homage to the victims and our thoughts are with their near and dear ones.

For it is said-

Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it (George Santyana){rephrased)

This one just makes me laugh...

Explore Oct 26, 2007 #488

This chap has set up home outside our bay window. He's (?she's) slightly larger than a 50p piece.

Taken with a sigma 70-200, and a stack of macro rings.

2023: this is a European Garden spider (Araneus diadematus)

This is a photo from fall, that i've worked a little PS magic on to make it a little more Wintery:) Plus i am heading to Howell next month to see this beauty again, and i cannot wait!!

Merry Christmas to you all:)

This Picture is © Copyrighted 2015

this guy is only one of the 900,000 species of insects known to this day. There a lot more waiting to be discovered. Each and every species has an important role to play in the eco system which we are still struggling to unravel. Insects are the most diverse group of organism on earth and the most successful too.

This one was captured while she was taking a rest on the floor mat. I thought I saw one needle sticking out from its butt but while framing it thru the view finder, I noticed there were more sticking out. This guy had got load of needles concealed inside its specially designed long butt which could be extended and retracted at ease for some very special purpose. However for this shot, I only managed to capture 2 of those needles (ovipositor).

It took off thru the window shortly after this photoshoot.

bon voyage !

size : approx. 15mm

@bt panjang, sg

Artists Statement:

This painting captures a fleeting moment in early winter, where the landscape is transformed by the low, golden light that bathes the scene. The curving river bank, gently blanketed in snow, is outlined on the one side by trees whose tops glow with the warm hues of the rising sun. Painted in a high-key fashion, the work employs soft, coarse horizontal strokes for the water and a smoothness to evoke the feel of the flat white snowy fields, while the water—rich in greys, reds, and pale purples—reflects the cold light and the dark reflections of the trees, creating an interplay of warmth and chill.

The overall composition is designed to feel ephemeral, as the edges of the scene gradually fade into the surrounding whiteness of the snow, giving the viewer a sense of both the vastness and quiet intimacy of winter. The trees, though delicate in their soft brushwork, stand resilient against the cold, their glowing tops providing a gentle contrast to the more muted colours of the water and the snow.

In this piece, I sought to explore the subtle beauty of winter’s transitional moments, where the harshness of the season meets the fragile warmth of light. The interplay of colour and light, combined with the fading edges, speaks to the transient nature of time—how moments of clarity are often fleeting, but nonetheless beautiful in their impermanence.

This female Long-Winged Conehead, a species of bushcricket, left the safety of the log damp grass to get a better view, or perhaps in preparation for a colonising flight!

this dog looked so cute as he jaunted along....

:-)

nothing really to do with the shot, but I had the pleasure of seeing Jil Aigrot in concert last night...she does many Edith Piaf songs and did much of the singing in the film La Vie En Rose...it felt a bit like being transported back into time...it was wonderful:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxE21wcjtXg

Buenos Aires

This is the oldest Wesleyan Chapel that has been in continuous use since being built. Wesley preached here and it is a remarkable example of Non conformist architecture. He recommended the octagonal shape to avoid conflict with the established church. The chapel was later expanded so becoming an elongated octagon. On the right is the Church Hall built about 100 years after the Chapel.

After some kind of winter-sleeping, i finally had a people-shooting again yesterday. This is one of our last results and i really loved it because i'ts so different from my usual style.

A little bit of mystery, a lot of romanticism, backlight... just the things i love :D

Canon EOS 550D, Sigma 30mm 1.4 EX DC HSM

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This is a view from Cornish Hill overlooking Cornish Loch in Dumfries & Galloway in South West Scotland.

This Squirrell knew he wasn't supposed stealing the bird feed!

So I went and saw the neurosurgeon again today and he basically told me to keep taking the B12 supplement since my B12 levels are low and it can take months to see the effect of taking them. I can handle that.

But then he said the unthinkable...he said I should stop drinking for 3 months to see if that has any effect on it! THREE MONTHS WITH NO BEER, are you kidding me :-(

But I guess I gotta do it to see if it will help make things better.

So I go back to my regular Doc in a month to see if my B12 levels are improving. So it's just more waiting.

I wanted to thank all of you once again for your support, it really helps :-)

Random Fact: I will not be quitting drinking till next Monday! I have a growler and a half that I got a few days ago. No way I am putting that wonderful goodness to waste...heh.

Yes I am making a joke of a serious condition but thats my way of dealing with it so please don't think I am not taking this serious

This image was made with a Karlos 8x10 pinhole camera using a ND filter for 2 more stops of exposure. I use Carestream single sided X-ray film exposed at 60-80 asa depending on light conditions and time of day. I process with Rodinal 1:100 dilution at 20 degrees C for 6 minutes. The windy day made for some beautiful streaks of clouds. Actually, I was surprised I captured a skyline at all, using orthochromatic film.

In my dreams I'm dying all the time

As I wake its kaleidoscopic mind

I never meant to hurt you. I never meant to lie

So this is goodbye. This is goodbye

Taman Melawati

Selangor MY

November 2010

Hasselblad 501C

Carl Zeiss 80mm f2.8 CF T*

Kodak Ektacolor Pro 160 Expired

Epson V700

This has to be one of the grandest Co-op stores in the country, and its ornamented gable proudly proclaims it was built in 1890 by the Co-operative Society Limited. It has a classical figure in relief on either side and at the top, a chubby cherub.

This photo is far more popular than I ever imagined, and it's so cliche.

This was taken on an autumnal afternoon with fast shifting clouds. I captured this one when the light was soft yet enough to provide 3-D effects.

Listed as UNESCO in 2010, the Zhangye Danxia Landform area is known as “the eye candy of Zhangye”. Many artists admire this masterpiece as it is unbelievably colourful, like a n imaginative oil painting . Zhangye's Danxia landscape has lots of precipitous red cliffs, most of which are several hundred meters high, and multicolored ridges of weathered strata, sometimes stretching to the horizon. These formations, sometimes smooth sometimes sharp, stand out against the greens or grays of the plains , looking grand and magnificent, vigorous and virile.

Across the Danxia landscape zone, a kaleidoscope of numerous red rocky outcrops resemble weird and wonderful shapes like castles, cones, towers ; as well as humans, creatures, birds and beasts. Their peaks peeping through the mist and clouds, produce mirage-like scenery of fantastic mountains and pavilions.

Zhangye 's Danxia was formed by the erosion of red sandstone, forming isolated peaks and steep stratified outcrops. Its special geological structure, combined with long-term desert conditions , freeze-thaw peeling, and wind and water erosion gave rise to its present appearance.

Geologists believe that Danxia topography is formed by folding of layered oceanic crust. Exposed slanting rock layers have different colors, textures, shapes, sizes, and patterns. The combination of differences in density and erosion create towering peaks, cave holes, and stone halls. (Sourced from Internet)

甘肅張掖國家地質公園位於中國甘肅省張掖市, 規劃面積322平方公里。 2012年4月, “甘肅張掖丹霞地質公園” 國家地質公園（建設）資格被國土資源部批准。 2016年6月, 經實地驗收, 國土資源部同意命名該處為 “甘肅張掖國家地質公園”。這裡曾因其色彩斑斕的岩石地貌而被中國多家媒體選為中國最美地貌之一, 於2008年1月被甘肅省人民政府批准為省級“肅南－臨澤丹霞地貌風景名勝區”。

該公園位於祁連山北麓, 臨澤縣和肅南縣境內。兩縣均在甘肅省地級市張掖統轄範圍內。丹霞地貌主要分佈在康樂鄉和白銀鄉地段。臨澤丹霞景區是公園的核心區域, 距張掖市區以西30公里, 臨澤縣城以南20公里。這是整個公園發展最為完善, 遊客人數最多的一個景區。 第二大景區冰溝位於梨園河北岸, 於2014年8月3日正式揭牌。 冰溝佔地總面積為300平方公里, 海拔1500-2500米。 第三大景區肅南丹霞景區位於甘肅省臨澤縣。

張掖丹霞因其與眾不同的岩石色彩而舉世聞名。這些岩石光滑而險峻, 高數百米, 是紅礫石, 砂岩和其他礦物經過2400萬年的沉澱堆積而成。這種夾層蛋糕 般的效果與構成喜馬拉雅山脈的地殼板塊運動有關。經年累月的風吹雨淋，最終被雕琢成了如今這番奇特景象, 或形似塔, 或貌似柱, 或溝壑縱橫, 色彩斑斕, 形態各異。

This hangs in the natives huts. A piece in The Untold Want show.

This barn can be seen just off I-80 between Omaha and Lincoln, but no one ever sees it from this side.

This magnificent Oak tree is near Robinwood Lake in Gastonia NC. Happy Fenced Friday ^_^

Thanks for the Explore.

This work is based on my own photograph of a tawny owl. Thanks for viewing.

This was shot going south out of Animas Forks heading to Silverton. On this road are around 10 different trails you can explore. An easy trail, and very interesting one is where I am heading next, Eureka Gulch.

thanks for looking.

This species seemed to be at home in the intertidal and in grass fields.

This selfie looks a bit weird because I didn't realise I was holding my phone upside down.

This adolescent moose has been handing around our neighborhood for a couple of weeks. With the deep snow with a layer of embedded ice is limiting their movement.

I've been told the word "moose" comes from the Algonquin Language that means "Twig Eater". in this shot he's chowing down on twigs.

I always describe the moose here as Clydesdales on stilts. When they are on a road like this you get a sense of how long their legs are.

It looks like a young bull to me.

This is our puppy's 2010 Halloween costume. :)

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Closeup and cropped view of the bark of this American sycamore or plane tree with the whimsical fruit clusters balls a type of catkins on Duffins trail near Rotary park in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , April 7. 2022

Closeup and cropped view of the bark of this American Sycamore tree

Sycamore tree

Closeup view of the bark of this America sycamore tree

Catkins

American Sycamore tree

Brown catkins

Fruit clusters

plane tree

Sycamore or plane tree

April 2020

Wet Duffins trail

Quail eggs

Green and white Trilliums

Round hole in ice

Mullein

woods

Sunset

Duffins Creek Trail

Discovery Bay

Duffins Creek

Trilliums in the woods

Duffins Trail

Overcast

Discovery Bay near Duffins Creek

Martin’s photographs

Ajax

Bluefin tuna

Ontario

Canada

February 2022

Favourites

IPhone XR

iPhone 6s

forest

Trees

Wildflowers

March 2022

Fallen tree

Duffins Mash

Duffins trail

Trail near Duffins Marsh

Autumn

Red trilliums

Red trilliums in the woods

Beautiful blue sky

great clouds

Beautiful blue sky with great clouds

Squires beach

Blossoms

Beautiful springt tree blossoms

the clouds and blue sky

Rotary Park

Beautiful springt tree blossoms against the clouds and blue sky

Snow

Ice

Winter

Large tree

Cloudy blue sky

This bus was new to Lothian Buses as 1108 in 2019.

Seen here at SVBM open weekend haven been used of a shuttle to the museum from Edinburgh. It was then used on the internal museum shuttle, before heading back to Endinburgh.

This image is included in a gallery "Birds" curated by Grisu ἄγγελος_ἄγγελος.

Just before taking off.

A deleted Cartier-Bresson picture. Could anyone believe that?

Bigger size here

Note: This picture was submitted to the deleteme pool without any mention to the original author. After a dozen or so "great" comments its was revealed.

This whole experience shows several things. You are welcome to take your own conclusions. After all, art is some kind of mirror.

This is actually a quick test for my two new lomo 3.7 lmicroscope enses. Real intention was to compare them for defects. Turned out both are about the same condition. This is one of them

This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #Concept

Le thème de ce FlickrFriday est: #Concept

O tema desta FlickrFriday é: #Conceito

本次 FlickrFriday 主題: #概念

FlickrFriday-Thema der Woche: #Konzept

El tema de FlickrFriday es: #Sub-Concepto

This is a very rare Traction Avant of German production. The quality was better in many ways than the French, because a certain percentage of the parts had to be of local production. This example was found in 1992 in East Berlin, and was literally pulled away before the scrapping excavator could grab it... Since then the state hasn't changed, sadly.

@Les 90 ans de la Traction Avant, Circuit de Charade, Clermont Ferrand 2024

50/365

HI GUYS! yea, this is from yesterday Buy Giovanna wanted me to use it for today. I have some ideas so I wil try them later and that is everything. hhahah !

This is an old shot of the ice on Bronte Creek in Oakville that I played with in Luminar4 to adjust the colours and give it blue overtones.

Red and white SD40-2s crisscrossed Canada literally as the face of Canadian Pacific for a generation. The fact that a pair of Mulitmarks working a ballast extra on CP's Cranbrook Subdivision was cause for excitement would have been almost inconceivable, even just a few short years ago. But here we were, after two hours of sleep and hours of driving, standing face to face with red and white safety stripes in the wilds of British Columbia, and feeling like we had struck gold.

We stood at the East Siding Switch Swansea and watched light power pull out of the siding before the conductor lined the switch to make a runaround move. Such a mundane moment in railroading. But that's what SD40-2s are all about. Mundane. Doing the daily chores and doing them well. Doing them reliably for years and years and years. They outlived their contemporaries from other builders, sometimes by decades.

Imagining that this could possibly be my last sighting of a CP SD40-2 in the wild is almost unthinkable.

But as much as I hate to admit it to myself, yes, this is rare.

This one will be staying with me - probably as a cell phone landing pad. The embroidered parts are un-dyed and dyed bits of yarn. They were done before putting the sandwich together and I had a hard time figuring out how to quilt it so I didn't run right through the embroidery. I hope it's not too simple and you like it, partner - cause the real thing will probably be kind of similar!

This is an early morning view of Dumyat the most westernly hill in the Ochils.

This is Hickman Bridge from the top of the loop of the trail. Great arch.

Hickman Natural Bridge

Capital Reef National Park, Utah

another red squirrel shot from anglesey

and have a nice evening

This old house is in Tuttle, Oklahoma.

136/365

Something simple for today :)

Alex wrote me a sweet testimonial today, thank you<3 Take a look at her stream, she's amazing.

Midterms start this week. aaaah

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