This are the first new flowers of native California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) in the Polygonaceae plant family that I've seen this year in our canyon at home. They are flowering early this year, compare this photo from the first flowers of 2014 on May 2. I'm sure they are flowering early because of the October rain we had and the warm weather that followed. It's disturbing. (San Marcos Pass, 22 February 2022)

This unusual pavilion features two large, covered dining areas with fireplaces, surrounded by log and chink walls.

This photo is for a project going on over at tudiabetes.com and the TuDiabetes Flickr Group, for World Diabetes Day [Nov. 14].

The project is, to write a word in your hand describing how you feel about diabetes. [Yes, I have Diabetes]

Happy Fenced Friday!!!!

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Yashica Electro 35

SOOC

The silhouette card with the children at the table was a gift from Madai.

This week, #mypubliclandsroadtrip explores BLM Utah! First stop – an 8-mile round trip hike along ancestral puebloan ruins in southern Utah’s spectacular Cedar Mesa.

At the Monticello Field Office, we met BLM-Utah archaeologist guide Cameron Cox for a behind-the-scenes trip through the South Fork of Mule Canyon – located halfway between Blanding and Natural Bridges National Monument.

After about a mile and a half in, we came upon a 700-year-old granary called House on Fire. Aptly named for its colorful, streaked roof, this ruin displays a vibrant reddish-glow when sunlight penetrates its alcove. As we hiked deeper into Mule canyon, we checked out more alcove ruins, a collapsed kiva and cliff ruins that likely housed many families – like an ancient apartment building. After several more hours of bushwhacking, we came upon a very large and steep roadblock - the end of the road - where we climbed out of the canyon and were rewarded with extraordinary views of Cedar Mesa. A nice start to the #mypubliclandsroadtrip in Utah!

Please remember – Ancient puebloan ruins are important cultural sites that cannot be replaced. Always practice Leave No Trace, and do not add-to, remove, or deface any of the ruins.

Photo: Hannah Cowan, BLM Utah

This wash was replaced with a Istobal M'Start in September 2020.

This is a brightened picture of the wash bay before we used it.

© Cool James (James G) 2019, all rights reserved. Do not use my content/any part of this photo without permission!

This must surely be one of the most photographed views in Cape Town.This one dates from 1967.

This is what I saw when I woke up and sat up. It's crowded in there! Subsequent arrangements were different: the ice chest was where the blue and yellow boxes are sitting and the gray-and-green container was stored overnight on the car's hood.

This store caters for graffiti artists. We were surprised and didn't think you'd get away with that in London or New York.

This detail of Brampton east window shows what is called a "Pelican in her piety", an image which was used from medieval times to allude to the Passion of Christ. The bestiary said that as pelican chicks grew they flap their parents in the face with their wings and are killed by them. Three days after the mother pierces her breast and pours her blood over her dead chicks, bringing them back to life. The Christian significance of this is obvious.

its not often i can pin down the best moment in a day

but today this was definately it

This is a composite image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope. Pictured is the Orion Nebula, a giant cloud where stars are forming. Still located in the Milky Way galaxy, this region is a little bit farther from our home planet at about 1,500 light-years away. If you look just below the middle of the three stars that make up the “belt” in the constellation of Orion, you may be able to see this nebula through a small telescope. With Chandra and Webb, however, we get to see so much more. Chandra reveals young stars that glow brightly in X-rays, colored in red, green, and blue, while Webb shows the gas and dust in darker red that will help build the next generation of stars here.

Read more: chandra.si.edu/photo/2024/chandrawebb3/

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/E. Feigelson; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and J. Major

Image description: This is a peek into the heart of the Orion Nebula, which blankets the entire image. Here, the young star nursery resembles a dense, stringy, dusty rose cloud, peppered with thousands of glowing golden, white, and blue stars. Layers of cloud around the edges of the image, and a concentration of bright stars at its distant core, help convey the depth of the nebula.

This was taken through a car window as we moved from South east Germany further north to Wernigerode. Amazing conditions.

This was taken by a fellow soldier, SPC Jason Eckert, a couple weeks ago. That's the temperature - the time in Afghanistan, however, is about 1152 A.D. .......

This scene is from our "walk-about" in Bogota, Columbia.

This shot was taken from Piazzale Michelangelo (Michelangelo Square).

This is the first shot of my new EF 35mm lens.

This lens is my birthday gift from Emma.

Thanks Emma.

I learned calligraphy two years ago. I practice 顏真卿楷書 currently.

This is a necklace I created for a purple satin evening dress. The centre bead is in the watercolour technique and interspaced with silver rondelles and purple clay discs.

This is the Crease Pattern (CP) for my Cross Lap Unit Heart.

The same method as used here for making the strip of paper seemingly intersect itself can be used to fold many other shapes, both from single sheets and as modular assemblies.

This is one of a batch of seven Volvo B10M Plaxton Premiere 320 bought all were ex Ulsterbus for school work and upseated to 70 seen in Brew Road Pontypridd 2012.

This photo is an 'old' one.

It was taken on May 2008.

This bush along the bank of the Courtenay river, just shy of the estuary always stands out in winter with it's orange branches.

Shot this couple of weeks ago, more to come later.

This time I really wanted to push my P30+ back and see it's limits. This was shot @ ISO1600 to get the "real" grain/noise look and feel. I have always found it to be more natural then when you add it in the post processing. Also, this is shot in the studio so no natural light but 3x Bowens 500 heads, alot of power for a high ISO but it's possible because of the leaf shutter lens.

So overall I'm quite impressed with the results, the smoothness of the noise is amazing and I'm sure I'll be shooting more like this in the future. Also, the back amazes me once again...and I've been shooting with it now for a year!

F/3.5

1/400sec.

ISO1600

Model : Vera Hilmars

Make Up : Gunnhildur

Hair : Kata Sif @ Sprey

Phase One P30+ / Schneider Kreuznach LS 80mm F/2.8

This project builds a new Amtrak Cascades station in Tacoma's Freighthouse Square. This drawing shows the design for the station interior.

This is a series of sunrise shots taken during my 2012 trip to Myrtle Beach. I hadn't been there since I was a child. It was also the first time for me staying in a hotel with an oceanfront balcony view.

Taking advantage of the balcony view, I woke up long enough to photograph the sunrise each morning and then went back to bed for a few hours. I'm not an early riser as a rule, especially on vacation.

I pulled this series from my old computer files. My newer "photo" computer had major issues, including a hard drive failure, and has been out of service for more than two weeks. Fortunately, I believe I got all of the photos backed up onto an external hard drive before it crashed.

This is photo is part of my first official job as a photographer. I am keeping my day job.

This Photograph is copyright of Thomas Nicklin owner of Thomas Nicklin Photography©

This spot is just south of Arcata along Humboldt Bay.

This year was 18th Annual No Pants Subway Ride and was on Sunday January 13. One of the meeting places was at Foley Square. At the meeting points, participants were organized into groups and assigned a specific train car. Once everyone was divided up, they all headed to nearby subway stations. They took their pants off in the subway train and put it in their backpack. All train routes would converge on Union Square. All participants were having fun on Union Square subway station before they went to the bar.

This was taken in our garden from outside our patio doors. North Norfolk

This is the 21st in the series of 30 (of the 238 delivered) from this residence.

As I continue through this series of photos of this particular home, I find that they are progressively less (to use my 14-year-old niece's term,) "epic." The objective was to create a comprehensive photo portfolio for the homeowner which he could use in various ways to sell the property and one of the stated goals was to capture all the amenities and features the home has to offer. This elevator is one of the primary features and is just around the corner from the front entrance (which you can catch the edge of on the right side of the frame.)

Again those blue LEDs create challenges (making them look natural) as the camera creates some interesting patterns in all the blue. Before applying the recovery tool the result is a deep purple glow around the light. The lights seem to create a distinct edge to the camera, though is person the light fades off gradually. It is really an interesting phenomenon.

Modified in ACR. All Ambient light. No HDR.

This photo was taken during a photowalk at the NC Zoo back in October. Doesn't it look like the lion cub is saying "What?"

Cheers,

Wade

www.wadesword.com/photography

This afternoon in Fort William.

This is what happens after hours, when the public has left and builders are left to their own devices: Full-scale anachronistic apocalyptic INVASION!!! MWAAAHAHAHAHA!

Here a mech invades Operation Brickarossa and does its worst. (For some reason, it decided to single out MY tank and MY building; perhaps I angered the Mecha gods in a past life.)

Continuation.....

Well, I suppose you can guess the rest….

I immediately understood the reason for Wender’s “calling” from my living-room wall. Call it whatever you like, but the fact that his message got through to me can’t be neglected.

Anyway, we ended the day with a great barbeque of spicy pork-sausage and beefsteak made on the hot plate installed in the van, bought with some of the money I donated to this grand cause (I think we ended up eating the profits for this first trial-round, but it was all worth the effort and the jolly good party in Wender’s memory!).

Wender’s father had a little too much beer to drink due to him being overjoyed by what his son had achieved. I went away thinking even stronger than ever before over this former street kid who had made such an impression on my life and who had left his lovely little daughter there to constantly remind me so.

(Not forgetting his wonderful sisters, Keli and Jaqueline in the following Diptych).

This is about as close to true Fall foliage as we get around here...

This is more neck-decorative than neck-warmer. Made for Made for Ovelha Negra

Les filles de Lille at the local bookmarket

Lille

France

This was an over exposed photo, last photo in a HDR sequence. By adjusting exposure and some other settings, turning into B/W, it become more useful.

This image is for the non-commercial use of UBC faculties and units only. For non-UBC use please contact comm.marketing@ubc.ca. Please credit photo to “Paul H. Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing”

This photo still doesn't do the Hong Kong skyline justice. It's like the Manhattan skyline on steroids--massive and pretty damn magical.

This birthday cake was made for a para-

soldier who's nickname is taz

This portrait was done for a return client. For more information visit portraits-by-NC.com

This photo wasn't framed well. The cheese slope design was slightly too large for a border 5 plates high, but too small for 6 plates. I needed to compensate for about half of a plate (one-fifth of a stud). No amount of plates will help there. So something I do fairly often is to stick in another row of cheese slopes, which is just slightly larger than 1 stud length (when in the vertical position). Then I can extend the frame and it will all fit in well. One could also make a 1x1 column and fit it along the bottom, although that would be ever-so-slightly shorter than the row of cheese slope cubes and might allow for more slippage.

Of course, you can see the imperfections of this design, anyway. Guess I didn't get them all lined up perfectly for this shot. That's the problem with cheese slope mosaics. (Okay, one problem out of many.) They don't stay put, and they often will have little gaps. It looks okay from a normal vantage point, but here on flickr I crop the pictures, and it all gets magnified, flaws and all.

Me and some friends after airsoft

This was always one of my favorite World War 2 aircraft, so to see it flying was awesome.

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This morning I walked through "Hofgarten" in Düsseldorf to take some pictures of waterfowls.

There I saw this sweet couple.

You see that they belong together forever.

This summer I participated in a reading competition at a local Library and won a 25$ gift certificate.

My younger brother (the one I often post builds for on CC or EB) won a 25$ and a 5$ gift certificate.

Also I'd received a 25$ gift card as a gift. We had been saving those for a good sale at Kmart and were finally able to use them. We ended up paying 1.90$ for all of this. The Uruk Hai Army sets (we got 3) were 14$ and Attack of the Wargs was 23.50$. We got the friends sets for the leaves.

After we got home we sorted all of this in under an hour and a half.

All Kmarts are doing a 50% off clearance toys through October 5 so check any ones near you.

This is one of the better Non-Alcoholic IPAs