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Shot taken a few days before celebration of indian wedding in beautiful Rajasthan.
At the forthcoming wife's home the musicians showed up every evening and then the dancing began. Usually the women made the first step. Then it was up to the men to join - preferably in women dresses, big fun.
This home belongs to a garden designer, in Santa Monica, California. This property had a main house, and 2 cottages. Every area was designed to fit a Hawaiian Surfer Beach cottage theme. Enjoy the tour. I decided to put all of the photos for this home on one page.
One of the 12 gardens on the garden tour.
This moc was built for the second round of the 2017 bio-cup. The overarching theme was historical and my sub theme was western.
This Canon IIF from 1953 is incredible to say the least. Here with my 1951 Serenar 50mm 1:1.8 lens. It has the 'E-P' engraved into the top plate. I've heard it is from American military posts in Japan 'exchange post' but I've also read it's true meaning is not known, but it is known they only came from military posts in Japan.
I had to repair the shutter speed mechanism as it was firing at the same speed no matter what setting it was on. I then finished with a full CLA
So I wore these pants last night at work and I was doing a lot of stocking shelves and bending and squatting up and down ( which every move I make kills me, every day all the time, but I do it anyway because there is no help.) and I put them on again today for doing driving and deliveries. I was at about the 4th grocery store of the day when I realized the whole back of my pants were ripped. I have no idea if it happened last night and no one saw or didn’t tell me, or if it happened sometime this morning. Either way it was funny and embarrassing but I didn’t care that much. I am over being embarrassed over goofy stuff like this. On the other hand last night I was watching the news and Tom Brady and Peyton Manning did a golf tournament for charity yesterday here in Denver with Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods. The sportscaster ended the sports news with a shot of Brady bending down and his pants ripped.... LOL! And the other thought that came to mind, all the SNL actors doing SNL from their homes this last month or two, the opening has them very basic and not made up, and one of them Kate McKinnon (I do not mean this bad at all) looks like she just woke up, and if she can do that on national TV and not care, that’s how I want my attitude too. It generally is.
I love this cute outfit so much and I had just a little quick trip to the corner store and back. So I kept the Sheer Energy pantyhose on that I was wearing around the house and threw on this little cute outfit again. I could have worn my grey canvas tennies but it was a short trip!
This ratty EJ&E engine gets a dash of dignity with the Durham in the background as a UP coal drag heads East.
this is the same rainbow in the previous photo AND its slightly dimmer twin! this shot was taken through the windshield of a moving car so I'm surprised it came out.
This is My neighbor FiFi's cottage! Her bedroom is chocolate and so dreamy! She is French and has the most incredible sense of style and shabby chicness. calamitykim.typepad.com/
This Base Exchange shopping facility was located at the junction of Mons Road and Festubert Blvd. Shopping outlets included a Grocery Store, a Smoke Shop, a Men's and Women's Clothing Store, a Barber Shop, a Beauty Parlour, a Variety Store, Cleaning and Banking facilities. A civilian doctor also had an office in the Plaza.
Canadian Armed Forces Exchange Service (Canex) sells a wide variety of wares, at prices below unsubsidized retailers, to Canadian Armed Forces, their dependants and civilian employees of the national defence department.
Clipped from - The Windsor Star newspaper - Windsor, Ontario, Canada - 13 March 1968 - Clipped from - The Windsor Star newspaper - Windsor, Ontario, Canada - 13 March 1968 - Petawawa - Forces join retail business - Reports that the defence department intends to enter the retail business at the Petawawa base has caused concern among residents. Camp Petawawa is 10 miles north of this (Pembroke) community, about 100 miles northwest of Ottawa Merchants in contact with base personnel say Canadian Armed Forces Exchange Services (CANEX) will soon replace Maple Leaf Services as a retail outlet to serve the forces and would sell at prices that would drive competitors into bankruptcy. Replying to a Pembroke chamber of commerce inquiry, Defence Minister Cadieux wrote that CANEX had been approved in principle. Authority has been given to form a planning group to examine the many aspects in this field including welfare, recreation merchandising. The department has no intention of engaging in unusual business practices, the minister wrote. If it does compete with private enterprise, it will not compete unfairly. It would be several months before CANEX would begin to take over management of existing non-public facilities and functions. The chamber of commerce is sending a five-man delegation to Ottawa Friday to confer with Mr. Cadieux. LINK - www.newspapers.com/clip/122400663/forces-join-retail-busi...
Maple Leaf Services was a Crown corporation established to operate canteens, grocery stores and other outlets at army establishments in Canada and abroad.
This cheetah shot is just the way I shot it and is NOT a crop.
Shot at about 300-350mm. Yes we were close.
Hand held. 20D W/ 100-400mm lens.
This colour-coded topographic image shows Trouvelot Crater and its surroundings on Mars.
It was created from data collected by ESA’s Mars Express on 12 October 2024 (orbit 26233) and is based on a digital terrain model of the region, from which the topography of the landscape can be derived. Lower parts of the surface are shown in blues and purples, while higher altitude regions show up in whites and reds, as indicated on the scale to the top right.
North is to the right. The ground resolution of the original image is approximately 18 m/pixel and the image is centred at about 15°N/255°E.
[Image description: A top‑down view of a colourful Martian terrain map. The surface is shaded in bright colours that represent elevation: high areas appear in pinks and reds, while lower regions fade into greens, then deep blues. Several circular impact craters are visible throughout, with their rims highlighted by the changing colours. The overall effect is a vibrant, textured landscape showing the height differences across the area.]
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
This photo was shot from a hot air balloon.
UNESCO World Heritage Site.
From Wikipedia:
c. 15th century BC
The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (Egyptian: Ḏsr-ḏsrw meaning "Holy of Holies") is a mortuary temple built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Located opposite the city of Luxor, it is considered to be a masterpiece of ancient architecture. Its three massive terraces rise above the desert floor and into the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari. Hatshepsut's tomb, KV20, lies inside the same massif capped by El Qurn, a pyramid for her mortuary complex. At the edge of the desert, 1 km (0.62 mi) east, connected to the complex by a causeway, lies the accompanying valley temple. Across the river Nile, the whole structure points towards the monumental Eighth Pylon, Hatshepsut's most recognizable addition to the Temple of Karnak and the site from which the procession of the Beautiful Festival of the Valley departed. Its axes identify the temple's twin functions: its central east-west axis served to receive the barque of Amun-Re at the climax of the festival, while its north-south axis represented the life cycle of the pharaoh from coronation to rebirth.
The terraced temple was constructed between Hatshepsut's seventh and twentieth regnal years, during which building plans were repeatedly modified. In its design, it was heavily influenced by the adjacent Temple of Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh Dynasty built six centuries earlier.[d] In the arrangement of its chambers and sanctuaries, though, the temple is wholly unique. The central axis, customarily reserved for the mortuary complex, is occupied instead by the sanctuary of the barque of Amun-Re, with the mortuary cult being displaced south to form the auxiliary axis with the solar cult complex to the north. Separated from the main sanctuary are shrines to Hathor and Anubis, which lie on the middle terrace. The porticoes that front the terrace here host the most notable reliefs of the temple; those of the expedition to the Land of Punt and the divine birth of Hatshepsut, the backbone of her case to rightfully occupy the throne as a member of the royal family and as godly progeny. Below, the lowest terrace leads to the causeway and the valley temple.
The state of the temple has suffered over time. Two decades after Hatshepsut's death, under the direction of Thutmose III, references to her rule were erased, usurped, or obliterated. The campaign was intense but brief, quelled after two years when Amenhotep II was enthroned. The reasons behind the proscription remain a mystery. A personal grudge appears unlikely as Thutmose III had waited twenty years to act. Perhaps the concept of a female king was anathema to ancient Egyptian society, or a dynastic dispute between the Ahmosid and Thutmosid lineages needed resolving. In the Amarna Period, the temple was incurred upon again when Akhenaten ordered the images of Egyptian gods, particularly those of Amun, to be erased. These damages were repaired subsequently under Tutankhamun, Horemheb and Ramesses II. An earthquake in the Third Intermediate Period caused further harm. During the Ptolemaic period, the sanctuary of Amun was restructured, and a new portico was built at its entrance. A Coptic monastery of Saint Phoibammon was built between the 6th and 8th centuries AD, and images of Christ were painted over original reliefs. The latest graffito left is dated to c. 1223.
The temple resurfaces in the records of the modern era in 1737 with Richard Pococke, a British traveller, who visited the site. Several visitations followed though serious excavation was not conducted until the 1850s and 60s under Auguste Mariette. The temple was fully excavated between 1893 and 1906 during an expedition of the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) directed by Édouard Naville. Further efforts were carried out by Herbert E. Winlock and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) from 1911 to 1936, and by Émile Baraize and the Egyptian Antiquities Service (now the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)) from 1925 to 1952. Since 1961, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA) has carried out extensive consolidation and restoration works throughout the temple, and it was opened to the public in March 2023.
Carolina Wren...Such a aggravated expression! He worked like crazy to get this out of his bill. I have no idea what it is or where it came from. Finally he got rid of it and was able to eat some seeds.
I got on a creative wild hair last night and put this up on the wall above my bed.
I'm still recovering from Sunday night's concert, it was intense. Today I had an eye doctor appointment, and to my dismay, I don't need glasses. Yes, I am that pathetic. My pupils are still dilated and I feel like a creature of the night that can't stand the sun.
This was a clever moment - when he is having a dream and finds himself in bed with 'Harriet'. Nicely done and so sexy in a nightdress!
This photo captures a large cracked boulder on a grassy and rocky shore, with floating icebergs and snow-capped mountains in the background. The serene and dramatic landscape of Iceland is beautifully highlighted in this image, showcasing the contrast between the solid rock, fluid water, and icy formations.
Traduzione in italiano: Questa foto cattura un grande masso spaccato su una riva erbosa e rocciosa, con iceberg galleggianti e montagne innevate sullo sfondo. Il paesaggio sereno e drammatico dell'Islanda è splendidamente evidenziato in questa immagine, mostrando il contrasto tra la roccia solida, l'acqua fluida e le formazioni di ghiaccio.
So This Is Christmas by John Lennon (Lyrics)
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Nikon Micro 45mm f/2.8 ED PC-E
This satin blouse is a copy of a Karen Millen blouse that I purchased on ebay so that my dressmaker could copy it to my size (with a couple of minor design alterations).
As a point of interest, the original was subsequently donated to MOSTWAM for use in their delightful photographic pursuits...it has featured in wet and messy photoshoots.....sample images of the original blouse are on the MOSTWAM website.
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This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spectacular galaxy NGC 2442.
This galaxy was host to a supernova explosion, known as SN2015F, that was created by a white dwarf star. The white dwarf was part of a binary star system and syphoned mass from its companion, eventually becoming too greedy and taking on more than it could handle. This unbalanced the star and triggered runaway nuclear fusion that eventually led to an intensely violent supernova explosion.
SN2015F was spotted in March 2015 in the galaxy named NGC 2442, nicknamed the Meathook Galaxy owing to its extremely asymmetrical and irregular shape. The supernova shone brightly for quite some time and was easily visible from Earth through even a small telescope until later that summer.
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And now you know why we fled New England in 1967 and headed for sunny California, where the temperature in our back yard during the past few days has been in the mid-70s (admittedly far above average). This is a shot of my wife's brother, who lives near Boston, MA, playing with his snow blower. He says he loves the snow...☺
This shot was taken in January ~~ There's a LOT more snow there now...
For Sliders Sunday, I didn't do a lot of sliding here, just a bit of tweaking in Topaz and some cropping.
This was my first shoot with the gorgeous Charleigh; I knew within 0.02 seconds of meeting her that it was going to be a fun shoot. She is an absolute blast to shoot with - very talented and at ease in front of the camera, creative, funny, sassy, and very photogenic. We just moved from place to place in Downtown Boise and Charleigh made all of them look better. This was one of my most enjoyable one-on-one shoots ever. I can't wait to shoot with her again!
I did this shoot in Downtown Boise in May 2019.
In this new image ESA’s Mars Express visits the highlands of Mars, exploring the innumerable craters peppering this ancient part of the Red Planet. Part of the particularly prominent Trouvelot Crater can be seen to the bottom-right.
We've added labels to highlight features and regions of note. Be sure to click on these labels to explore the landscape in detail!
This image comprises data gathered by Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on 12 October 2024 (orbit 26233). It was created using data from the nadir channel, the field of view aligned perpendicular to the surface of Mars, and the colour channels of the HRSC. North is to the right. The ground resolution of the original image is approximately 18 m/pixel and the image is centred at about 15°N/255°E.
[Image description: A high‑resolution overhead view of a rocky, desert‑like landscape on Mars. The surface is mostly reddish‑brown with patches of darker blue‑grey tones. Many circular impact craters of different sizes are scattered across the scene, some with raised rims and shadowed interiors. Subtle ridges, eroded valleys, and textured terrain patterns run diagonally through the image, giving a sense of ancient geological activity. The overall impression is of a dry, rugged, and heavily cratered Martian surface.]
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
This is my thing. I love nature and I love what she can give to us. Insects and flowers are my favorites, so I love take a walk in my back country and shoot some picture about this beautiful earth we're on.
This was a french TLC (tank supply tractor) in 1940. The idea was to make a completely armored vehicle that could go on the frontline to resupply tanks without taking risks. A lot were produced especially to be included in B1 Bis divisions (DCr), unfortunately there were still not enough. On the field it had a more polyvalent role as it was often carrying ammunitions and supplies for the infantry as well. It could tow up to 2 trailers, a fuel one and a basic one for ammunitions and everything else, of course it could transport ammunitions, fuel barrels and pumps in its back as well. It often just had the fuel trailer but could also carry both or none depending on its mission. Sometimes it even towed canons like the 47mm one or the 25mm one.
The model includes all the trailer models, the general one and the back of the model can fit supplies and a few soldiers (as it was often done). there is dedicated space for ammunitions as well, the fuel trailer also has space for general supplies.
Instructions are already made, just send me a DM if you are interested !
This week we've been on tour! Canadian Tire, Home Depot, Michael's. Such fun! Getting to kiss all kinds of wonderful people! Great lighting, fantastic backgrounds. Oh if only I'd brought my camera! Duh...
Next week I will try really really hard for a wonderful shot.
Inside this leather is very oily. Smells great! I have it some oil and wax, but full leather aroma remained. It is heavy leather - cold when you take it to hand from wardrobe.
this is probably one of the few favorite "oo, *click click click*" i did that alot in chicago. I learned very early on when i first started taking pictures, was to just keep taking pictures, you never know what you capture.
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THIS LOOKS GREAT LARGE | There is a story in this old house -- a novel, if you will -- about a family beset with pain and hopelessness. I can see the father returning home from one of his many jobs. Back then the yard was clean and the grass was mowed and the rose bushes bloomed carefree and without ceasing.
One day dad didn't make it in to dinner. His tired and overworked heart just gave out. He laid on the dusty ground at the tail-end of his old Chevrolet parked in the little driveway breathless and in the uniform of his night job. His three children barely saw their dad and his wife always complained of the same thing. Now he was dead. And the Mrs. followed not long afterwards, stricken with grief and hoplessness over the future of her children. They were inducted into the foster care system and were split up-- never to see their old house again.
Although the story is fiction and still being written, the house is real. This is my interpretation.
This tree is overtaken by its own beautiful pink blooms. How beautiful!
I only wished I could have made better photos of it.
These shots were quickly captured at home in limited time.
Also I am not sure what the name of this tree is, any help in this regard will be appreciated.
EDIT:
[ I have found the specific species of this beautiful plant. It is a "Calliandra Brevipes also known as Pink Powderpuff" the Mimosa is more of a tree and this one is more of a shrub. The leaves also differs considerably in size. ]
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Thank you all very much for your visits, favs and comments.
This is Odawara Castle which isn't actually what it seems to be. The 1870 earthquake flattened the castle at Odawara and it remained in that state for a hundred years until over the last fifty years it was rebuilt to its current state. To be fair to the Japanese there are many ancient buildings worldwide that have been rebuilt built on site. The original building was erected in 1447, rebuilt in 1633, 1706 and again in then late 20th century. This history tells as much about earthquakes as it does Japanese military defences.
..... this time to Shirley who sent me this gorgeous Snoopy on top of a cupcake !
Not only is it a lovely figurine but it's also a music box !!
I'm a great fan of Snoopy but don't you just love those little sous-chef Woodstocks ? :o)))
Thank you so much Shirley .... I love it !
I won't be around tomorrow as I'm off to Cake International at the NEC !!! :o))))