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This was taken at the 28th Street Metro Cruise in Grand Rapids, last year.

 

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Never changing, a view that has been seen over the many centuries. Interesting to see in this ageless shot the radar installation that guards the entrance to Plymouth RN base.

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This song sparrow was singing on territory at Cardinal Marsh this morning. They can really blend in with those brown background rushes.

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Tattoo: Redfish . Inspiration tattoo

Pants: Native Urban . Worakls Short

Necklace: Rebellion . Guarded

 

Sperlingskauz - Eurasian Pygmy-Owl - Glaucidium passerinum

This place is in Helsinki, the capital in Finland. It’s a park full of rhododendons. Very nice place to visit at this time of year. Lovely Day ( Bill Withers ) 👱‍♀️🎧🎶 ICMphoto.

A retrospective of Superstorm Sandy and its future implications.

Maribor, Slovenia

« A Cat and goose chase »

 

Thanks to VeraJane Vickers for the following source :

www.flickr.com/photos/95044232@N03/52393642137/in/datepos...

 

Thanks to Pexels for the following :

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My own stock photos

 

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Corel Paint Shop Pro 2022

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I make this image public for getting an impression of the AVIF format (can be opened in the latest IrfanView, Chrome and Firefox): Link to AVIF in Google Drive

 

The AVIF image compression (in the HEIF container) is a very promising format as it provides good image quality in a very small package and is (in comparison to HEIC) free of any licenses. I hope Flickr as well as Google and Microsoft products will soon have full support for this innovation.

 

Besides the high compression efficiency the big advantage over JPEG is that a color depth per channel of 10 and even 12 bit is supported.

 

The uploaded JPEG is about 17MB in size, the AVIF 1.9MB.

 

This sample is generated using the avifenc.exe command line encoder for windows.

I used this parameters:

avifenc.exe --cicp 2/2/1 -r limited -y 420 -j 6 --min 30 --max 40 --minalpha 30 --maxalpha 40 in.png out.avif

 

The result is:

- 6 threads used (for my 6 CPU cores)

- to colorspace YUV420 (422 and 444 is not supported by the Windows AV1 extension)

- 12 bit per channel

 

Link to Windows encoder binary

Alternate (2x as fast in my benchmarks)

Usually you can hear geese in the distance , however on this occasion these Canada geese came up behind me chattering quietly. I turned around quickly and managed to get a couple of shots , but as I was using my wide angle lens the geese were ' thrown ' further away than they actually were. As a sunset cloudscape image I quite liked their silhouettes as an added interest.

 

"Without the way, there is no going."

 

(Thomas Kempis)

 

PRINTS

As always, large is better :-)

This is a shot I took in the forest here in Zürich on a day with heavy snowfall. I actually wanted to capture the person walking in the distance in front of me but my camera misfocused on the snow instead of the person. Later I also managed to capture a similar Picture with the “correct” focus, but I think I got lucky with this one as I prefer it this way with the person out of focus. It captures the feel of the falling snow better in my eyes. However, I might show the other one as well one day.

 

A pair of rebuilt former BN GP30s lead the Brainerd Local down the street in Brainerd, MN 13 years ago today on April 18, 2007.

 

The local is here heading south to the mainline after serving the Wausau Paper mill. BNSF served this stretch of street running 3 days a week back in 2007. This former Potlatch paper mill in Brainerd went through several owners in the 2000s and finally closed for good in 2013. BNSF no longer runs down FIrst Street here in Brainerd, as the mill was the only customer on this little branch.

 

This pair of 30s, which the BN classified as a GP39E and GP39M respectively, made several trips on the Brainerd Local that spring. Since I lived along the Brainerd Sub. in McGregor in 2007, I chased this BNSF 2748 and 2811 pair several times that spring.

 

That white Chevy Corsica on the left looks exactly like the railfan car I drove around the Twin Cities in the late 90s. Funny seeing it here when I dug out this shot as I haven't seen a Corsica for years.

 

Bird, my friend, sing me again this delightful memory...

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtraNT6h_FY

 

@ ma Galerie des Machines - PARIS Couture

Garden, The Netherlands

 

Explore #474

 

View On Black

  

A picture is a poem without words

 

This Magic Moment by The Drifters

 

Recommended View - View On Black

 

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This was used as artwork for a digital single release by musician Joe Hodgson who is launching his latest work and website this summer. All creative and arts folk are having to navigate difficult times this year!

 

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This picture is a render I did some 5 years ago using Poser software. I think that I managed not only to capture a good likeness of her face but also her figure. I used 3 point lighting. The shadows accentuate the curves of her figure. : )

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You, me and La Seine

Shot by my dear friend Daniel

Processed by me

 

"Here we are

Stuck by this river,

You and I

Underneath a sky that's ever falling down, down, down

Ever falling down.

 

Through the day

As if on an ocean

Waiting here,

Always failing to remember why we came, came, came:

I wonder why we came.

 

You talk to me

as if from a distance

And I reply

With impressions chosen from another time, time, time,

From another time"

 

One of my favorite songs ever: youtu.be/SrZYP8SzlN8

This is the tiny mountain village of Latsch in Grisons / Switzerland. If it looks vaguely familiar to you although you‘ve never visited the place maybe you‘ve watched one of the three Heidi films that were shot here (according to Wikipedia). Apparently the village hasn‘t changed much over the centuries and its structure and main buildings have remained the same since the 15th century.

Take it or leave it. I am who I am. Your approval is not needed.

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