This fascinating palace located in Orchha has a very interesting story behind it. You can read the story here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahangir_Mahal,_Orchha

This is the inlet pipe for fire fighting water on a wood silo!

This is my second Project 365 (taking a photo every day for the current calendar year). The last one I did was in 2013. This is a candid shot of my wife Carole slicing up roast beef for our New Year’s dinner. With the current COVID-19 restrictions in place, we were limited to a very small gathering of our children that are part of our household/bubble.

For me an object is an object, I don't have feelings for objects... That said, I love my new camera ;-)

Pour moi un objet est un objet, je n'ai pas de sentiments pour les objets... Cela dit, j'adore mon nouvel appareil photo ;-)

By This River - Brian Eno ---------------------------------------------- View Large / Voir En Grand

this is old and unexciting

Camera: Canon P

Lens: Voigtlander Color Skopar 35mm f/2,5

Film: Ilford HP5+ 400@400

Developer: Kodak HC-110

This Star Wars nativity scene is going to be my entry in the FBTB SW Christmasification Contest. This is one of the two contest pics.

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This is miss charlie playing dead in a desperate attempt to get me to throw the ball for her. I tried to get a shot of how she holds her legs straight out, horizontal to the floor, but it takes several gun blasts to get her to go down and she stays dead for about 0.05 seconds.

This is a special exhibition that is at the NGV at Federation Square in Melbourne and running until January 27, 2025. We get into a lift with this reminder on its door. "I was always here."

The exhibition is for Kamilaroi artist, Reko Rennie. It encompasses the intersection between culture, politics and identity from a First Nations perspective. Two of the main themes in Rennie's exhibition is the historic present tense, "I was always here," which ties him to his ancestors, and "Remember me," of which I will say something in the art work of that title.

This dress is warm and comfortable o wear and great to relax in on a winter day

This yacht has been parked in the same spot since at least 2005, although the mast has been unstepped since then. It's not clear if it's a very slow restoration or if it's been abandoned.

This guy stared me down until I caved in and took his picture.

haha i had the best fun ever making this you will need your sunglasses for this one . it is a dark cold wet day so i decided to make mine full of colours hahaha and i learned how to make a photo huge . did all this on picknik dont really know how i decided this time to press every second button and this is what i got . i love big bright bold colours and i sure did get them . i loooooove pressing buttons to see what happens . running out of buttons on picknik to press will have to find something new to try out that is not too hard for me as i am not very good with computers lol as you can see haha

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This Minecraft creation left me speechless, I thought that this was not Minecraft until I noticed the blocks of Sand and Stone.

This pictured was captured at TCS 10K Run organized at Bengaluru. Is he suprised or shocked?

This woman belongs to the Mixe community of Mixistlan, Oaxaca, Mexico

this is just one of those very lucky shots. A young girl jumps in the water for her swimming examination. Somehow I pressed the button exactly when her feet touched the water. The colors are due to a bit of experimenting with shuttertime/ aperture, so no photoshop, only a little bit of cropping:-)

This is my first hdr attempt.............

France - Villecroze. Main street

Villecroze is a medieval charming village which attracts many visitors. In the magnificent decor of mountains of pines and oaks, this village has many sights to see. There's one main street running though the center of town, with shops along both sides. A side street off the main street is lined with terrace café-restaurants beneath large, shady plane trees. Beside this are petanque courts and a parking area.

Het schilderachtige, middeleeuwse dorp Villecroze ligt in de Provence Verte, het groene hart van de Var, tussen het Lac de Ste-Croix, met de Gorges du Verdon, en de Côte d'Azur. Villecroze is klein, rustig en gezellig. Het ligt nabij andere mooie plaatsjes als Cotignac, Tourtour, Flayosc, Entrecasteaux, Lorgues en Le Thoronet

This is my new girl. I believe she is a DZ Cherry, though she was advertised as a Recall she doesn't look like one at all. She was modded by her previous owner ReinaMuerta. I am so thrilled to have her.

This photo is now Available for licensing on Getty Images

After staring at this photo of the hood of an art car at the Fremont Fair, I immediately started looking for beers that I've had. I started keeping rough tallies in my head, and then thought Flickr notes would annotate this perfectly. I've noted any beer that I know I've tried, trying to avoid duplicates. Until I got bored, of course. I'm sure there are more.

This is another of my revisited slides. I shoot a fair amount of slide film, just because a well exposed slide is so pretty. It is one step removed from the original scene and just has such a depth of color and detail to it that never quite transfers fully to print. Unfortunately, I do not often print my slides, I am content to marvel at them in their sheets then file them away, and as such I can often forget what I have taken. Then every 8 months or so, some task requires me to sit down and leaf through them looking for a specific slide, and invariably I find a dozen that make me think "geez I should scan that or print it or do something with it". So here is another of those. I would not consider this one of my all time favorite shots I have taken out in the gorge, nor one of my most creative, but I like this anyway. I like it because, simply put, it is a beautiful scene. It does not always have to be creative or a fresh perspective. Does not have to be done through a pinhole or a holga or double exposed or cross processed. Sometimes I like the photos that are simple and beautiful, and that is why I like this. The scene itself is more than enough subject matter. I like the sweep of the hill to the right, the blue color from a clear sky reflected in the water, the splash of yellow leaves and the strong vertical line of the falls itself (even if the water is a bit overexposed, the fickleness of slide film). I love the sense of solitude and peace to this photo and looking at it I can hear again the sibilant whisper of the water streaming down to splash in the pool at the bottom.

This one didn't want to get posted...

This is my last and most favorite shot through out the whole series . It was a fun shoot and I'm very satisfied with the outcome. Hope you guys feels the same. Thanx to Najwa for being the model for the day and all my flickr friends for the support and comments.

This is a 2000 X 1250 digital image taken by myself.

The images in the various galleries come mostly from my photo collection, gathered over the past 40+ years. They are a combination of my own shots and others acquired over those years through trading, purchasing, and attending conventions.

This photostream was created in 2017 for the sole purpose of holding my photo collection as an archive, and has had over 10 million image views (to 2022)

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when the owner of the cafe asked us what we were up to this day I said "we are out celebrating our 20 year anniversary" he said "20 years of what??" I laughed and said "of being together" I was looking at some art on the wall and turned around and he was staring at me. He said "what were you in kindergarten when you got together?"

Thank you Mister, That felt very nice. :)

So much going on in this shot ... :)

Pic taken in Varosliget (Budapest, near Heroes' Square and the copy of the Hunyad Castle - Romania, Transylvania)

This little raccoon comes every night all by himself, I guess he is now on his own. He loves to put his food in the water as you can see!!

This a 7 degree F landscape of Boulder Open Space.

This is a panorama of Joshua Tree National Park at Night, in an attempt to capture to feel of the park at night. This is a panorama of 8 combined horizintal images, taken with a Canon 1Dx camera, and a Nikon 14-24 mm lens at 14 mm, f 2.8, 25 sec. exposures and ISO 6400. there are 2 small lights hidden among the rocks and a larger light approx. 40 - 50 meters to my right. There a a considerable amount of light pollution around Joshua Tree. This creates aa background ambient light so the park does not seem "pitch black", and actually helps to light the foreground somewhat. This ambient light is a very "flat" light however, and does not create a very pleasing look. The added lights create shadows and create some depth to the photo.

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This beautiful woman I call my soul sister recently sent her 17 year old son off to be a Marine. He has been planning it out for a few years and finally flew off to boot camp in January. She longs for her son and wanders how he will do. She misses his presence yet has pride in his accomplishment. I think she will hold her breath until she sees his eyes again in April.

My travails across sub-himalayan India often gives me chance to make interesting acquaintances. This fellow was accompanying a?naga sadhu travelling in a SUV which stopped right in front of me as I was making my way back to my hotel.Without any intro he asked me to make a donation for the akhara of the naga sadhu.No hesitation, no request. I was rather taken aback by this brazen intrusion seeing which he literally dragged me for an audience and blessing from the sadhu in the car.His other accomplice had by then worked his magic over my companion who evinced a misplaced interest and had already taken some steps to the car.To cut this short, a fully naked sadhu was sitting in the car in partial light, on seeing us he took out a metal contraption( seemed like trisul), mumbled some mantra and asked for 5000 bucks. I was getting over my initial shock and started protesting but by then my companion had already handed over 500 bucks while I had brought out a fifty note.By then I knew we had fallen to a ruse so I caught hold of my companion and tried to take her away. I succeeded and moved away just when this fellow caught the strap of my dslr and tried to pull it off my shoulder.I had enough. I let out a holler to attract the people on the road and I managed to draw clear. It was then I shot this, his unrepentant countenance coming as a shock. This masquerade of a thug...Pl see magnified.

This year there were more harlequins at the rapids than I've ever seen before. On this visit I counted seven drakes (and only one hen).

These wonderful amazing ducks migrate from the coast of the northwestern U.S. to ply the rapids in the Yellowstone River where they glean lots of aquatic insect life for about a month before the plain-plumed hens lay eggs in nests on the bluff high above the river, and the decoratively-marked males fly back to the coast, leaving the hens to raise the ducklings and guide them to the coast at the end of their short Yellowstone summer.

Explore #258, 12th March 2009.

The Kriegerhorn (I believe) as seen from Oberlech (Austria).

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This picture was taken at Sauvie Island, Oregon just as the sun was beginning to set.

This large moth was resting on a step in the stair well for a couple of days. It allowed me to move its fore wing to reveal an orange hind wing.

This photo was taken March 25, 2018, in Tianshui, China.

This was just what I needed, a complete pampering and lovely makeover and photo session.... huge thanks to the fantastic JoJo and Tim/Tamara from FourthSpace, a brilliant makeover service and such lovely and friendly people. (www.thefourthspace.com or their flickr account at www.flickr.com/photos/thefourthspace.)

So what do you think about the new look? More pics to come from this session... don't worry, I won't subject you to all 350 though :)

This is a barn quilt square, one of many on the St. George Barn Quilt Trail in Southern Ontario. Quilt patterns on barns date back to colonial America. After the colonists became established and had spare income, they painted small patterns on the ends of the barns as a way to celebrate their heritage. The history of the barn quilt begins about 300 years ago with the arrival of immigrants from the Rhine region of Germany. They came for religious freedom. These groups included Amish, Mennonites, Lutherans, and other Reform groups. Many settled in Pennsylvania, especially in Berks, Lancaster and Lehigh counties. The designs were also believed to protect the farm and bring good fortune.

This particular square is located on the old mill and represents early industry. One of the initial reasons for the founding of the Village of St. George in 1814 was industry. In the early 1800s Ontario natural resources was a prized product all over Canada and abroad. St. George was an integral part of this trade. Standing amid fields near to the swiftly-flowing Grand River, St. George was the model of a settlers’ town. It boasted mills to grind farmer’s grain into flour and feed, sawmills, blacksmiths, and manufacturing facilities. One particularly prominent gristmill stood on the outskirts of St. George, a symbol of the sophistication of the town. St. George also possessed numerous manufacturing factories, creating such items as wagon wheels, sleighs and agricultural machinery.

This quilt block features a motif of crossed wrenches, sable, on a ruby field, surmounted by a toothed gear. The wrenches are just one example of the tools and agricultural implements created in St. George; what says “industry” as well as a gear? Whether part of a carriage or a separate product, gears are a major component of industry world-wide and in St. George also.

There is also a controversial belief that quilts were used to communicate information to African American slaves about how to escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad, however, this has been disputed by a number of historians.

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This card is a gift for Vivian and is from martian cat (aka) Chris Ishikawa.

note from Chris: I moved my favorite prayer to here.

It has become lost below as it was one of my first comments.

Please copy and paste it below if you would like to add a prayer for Vivian.

THE LORD'S PRAYER

"Our Father which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name,

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts,

as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom,

and the power, and the glory,

for ever." -- Amen.

--- Matthew 6:9-13 - KJV

This is the front cover for my screen printed concertina book i've been working on for my final MA project.

Barrio La Meced

Santiago de Cali

This was an awesome trip. We were the only ones in this area of the Maze, possibly the only people in the whole of the Maze for a few nights.

This weekend I attended an event hosted by the David Lynch Foundation (visit dlf.tv) located at the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. The generosity that comes out of this man is unparalleled. His vision is simple: Let's make a better world.

Thank you David Lynch for your words and infinite inspiration.

Now let's go fishing.

This year's first flowers opened today. They are high up in terminal inflorescences. The stalk bearing these flowers and the numerous buds is more than 4 meters (more than 13 feet) tall.

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This week there have been spring tides which means very low water so the repair work on the pier can start again.