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A thousand people or more,reach the summit cairn of Green Gable every year,yet it is probably true to say that no visitor to Lakeland ever announced at breakfast that this fell was his days objective; and if he did his listeners would assume a slip of the tongue,of course he must mean Great Gable.
The two Gables are joined like siammese twins,but they are not likenesses of each other..Great gable is a great mountain which every walker wants to climb; Green Gable is a stepping stone to it but otherwise of no account..all eyes are fixed on Great Gable..Green Gable is merely something met on route,so think most folk that pass from one to the other.
But Green Gable is not at all insignificant. At 2603 ft,its altitude ,by lakeland standards is considerable,a sharp peaked summit,more delicately wrought than Great Gables,adds distinction...
I recognise Green Gable as a fine mountain in its own right.
Asian elephants and their mahouts (elephant trainer/caregiver) on the Mekong River in Laos. It has been estimated that the country had well over a hundred thousand elephants over a century ago. In fact, the old name for Laos was "Lan Xang," meaning "land of a million elephants." The country's previous flag had a three headed white elephant on it (a traditional symbol of strength and unity in Lao culture). Today, due to poaching and habitat loss, the elephant population numbers less than a thousand. Conservation work is being undertaken by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) as well as independent elephant sanctuaries such as this one. Ironically enough, there is a fundamental disagreement between the WWF and these elephant sanctuaries in their approach to conservation. WWF accuses these sanctuaries of exploiting elephants for tourism purposes, while the sanctuaries feel that putting elephants in a protected area is impractical and ultimately a losing battle as poaching and habitat loss continues to take their toll on the population.
He knows you've deceived him
Now here's a surprise
He knows that you have
'Cause there's magic in his eyes
He can see for Miles and Miles and Miles
There are thousands of trees in Bushy Park, Teddington – but these are the only poplars I’ve seen there. I’ve always liked these trees, ever since childhood.
Bushy Park is the gem in Teddington's crown. It covers 445 hectares (1,100 acres) and is the second largest of London's Royal Parks. Very near Hampton Court Palace, the park is home to some 300 free-roaming red and fallow deer. Within the park are woods, gardens, ponds and extensive grassland, as well as a formal baroque water garden.
The park hosts wildlife including sandpipers, herons, three species of woodpecker, warblers, finches, tits, redwing thrushes, frogs, toads, newts, foxes and goodness know what else that goes about its life unseen.
In addition, local rugby and cricket clubs are based here, Commonwealth and Olympic runners train here, cyclists ride here, and horses are exercised here. My great fortune is that I live less than five minutes walk from this genuinely wonderful – and free to use – facility, and I wouldn’t be without it for the world. Come and see!
© 2016 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
Here's one from a project where I was trying to nail the combination of a water droplet crown along with getting a nice bokeh shot at the same time. It took a lot of trial and error along with some patience, but I think the finished shot here is pretty cool. Sometimes patience does pay off! I've found the Tamron 45 VC to be an extremely versatile lens. It is getting a lot of use, from events to landscapes to video work. I'm definitely a fan!
Technical Information: Canon EOS 6D, Tamron SP 45mm f/1.8 Di VC USD, Processed in Adobe Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC, and Alien Skin Exposure X (use code "dustinabbott" to get 10% off)
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Dungeness is a big attraction to visitors, artists, photographers, fishermen, walkers and consumers of sea food. It is a peculiar place, quite different from the lush inland pastures as it is composed of the largest shingle beach in Europe, a peninsular built-up over about six thousand years by the sea. Despite being one of the driest parts of the United Kingdom, it is a haven for wild flowers and birds. The Southern tip has a curious colony of black tarred fishermen‟s huts and winching equipment for hauling their boats up on the beach and the strange little dwellings, often incorporating old railway carriages, erected before the days of planning permission.
One Thousand Venetian condominium is located at 1000 Venetian Causeway in what are called the Venetian Islands. Surrounded by Biscayne Bay, the Venetian Causeway runs from Miami Downtown to South Beach. This location is possibly the most centrally located building in all of Miami, just minutes from Downtown Miami and Miami Beach.
1000 (One Thousand) Venetian was built in 1983 and features twenty-two stories of luxury waterfront apartments plus ten four story townhomes. Because of its location it has incredible bay views and front row seats for the ever-changing Miami and Miami Beach skylines. The bayfront location has year-round bay and ocean breezes.
1000 (One thousand) Venetian residents enjoy two swimming pools, a state of the art fitness center, tennis court plus high speed elevators, gated and attended entry and concierge service including twenty-four hour security. There are over 200 parking spaces available for residents and guests alike... One of the original luxury Miami condos, 1000 Venetian has recently undergone a makeover and renovation.
The One Thousand Venetian lifestyle is somewhat laid back for an urban location in that is not surrounded by other tall condo buildings, the west facing apartments have views like an IMAX theater of the Miami Midtown and Downtown skylines plus from the balconies you can see Key Biscayne, Fisher Island and South Beach... at night it's like watching a million fireflies plus for special occasions like New years and the Fourth of July; you just open the blinds and watch the fireworks. The East facing units have similar Miami Beach skyline views plus incredible sunrises.
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"su piel
está
a miles de kilómetros"
"your skin
is
thousands of miles "
(Fotografía y prosa: Emili Bermúdez)
© 2017 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
The look here is pretty clear, "Hey Dad, what about me?" I got this look as I was shooting from a low space where Bella, our Cavalier Spaniel, couldn't get to. she had plowed through the snow till this point, but was desperately frustrated that she could get no closer. She just looked too cute there buried in the snow, and I though you would enjoy this shot. I used the new Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM lens for this shot, and my review of that lens has gone live today. You can read it here: bit.ly/can70300 | or watch it here: bit.ly/70300YT. I think Canon has done a solid job in delivering a nice upgrade to the V1 of the lens.
Technical Information: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV + Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM | Processed in Adobe Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC, and Alien Skin Exposure X2 (use code "dustinabbott" to get 10% off)
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Nikon FM2n
Nikkor-O.C 35mm f/2
Ultrafine Xtreme 400
Dev: Legacy Pro L110 1:31 for 5.5 min at 68 degrees
© 2014 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
No, not that kind of mushroom! This one was magical beause of the soft light and rich color. I enhanced the palette a bit in Alien Skin Exposure 6 and got a palette of color that I find exceptionally rich. I love the detail in the folds of the mushroom, and the way that is catches the light with a little glow so well.
Technical information Canon EOS 6D, Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD, Processed in Adobe Lightroom 5, Photoshop CC, and Alien Skin Exposure 6
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It was forecast to be a cloudless sunrise so I took a drive out to Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge to photograph the sandhill cranes this morning. Oddly, all the birds remained distant. I visited both the bird blinds but even with the 500mm I couldn’t get anything but “crowd” shots.
Oh well. It’s a wonderful experience, even if I didn’t get the pictures I wanted. There are thousands upon thousands of sandhill cranes there in the winter. (Check the dates before visiting.) There are so many, you almost don’t notice the place is teeming with other wildlife.
As usual, the best pictures come with the best light. This is at the fishing dock, across the highway — on the north side — from the Visitor’s Center. The Sun was just hitting the trees and giving the water the brown glow, but it hadn’t made it to the birds yet. You know me, I’m all about the color.
Nikon D7200 — Nikon 200-500 F5.6 ED VR
500mm
F5.6@1/640th
ISO 1,000
Cropped
ROD_4736.JPG
©Don Brown 2025
This is the rich chocolate cake decorated with chocolate cream cheese icing and hundreds and thousands that I baked for Scout for his fourth birthday.
The cake recipe, written down as a "Pantry Chocolate Cake" because all the ingredients are readily found in most pantries as staples, is a very old one, given to my Great-Grandmother by her cook before she left service and retired in the 1960s. The recipes were probably written down by her when she entered service in the 1920s, and she no doubt learned them from the cook whom she was apprenticed to. My Great-Grandmother's cook gave my Great-Grandmother, who had never cooked a meal in her life, a hand written cookbook of her "never-fail recipes". Whilst my Great-Grandmother employed another cook and never cooked a meal throughout the remainder of her very long life, she did cherish the cookbook, which was passed to my Grandmother, who rarely cooked herself. She in turn passed the cookbook to me, and I do enjoy cooking many of the delightful recipes from it. These include "Pantry Chocolate Cake", "Afternoon Tea Orange and Poppyseed Cake" and "Thick Breakfast Orange Curd".
This beautiful nursery tea set is made by the Shell China company in the 1920s. It features six cups, saucers and plates as well as a teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl, all gilt and featuring different nursery rhymes including: "The Queen of Hearts", "Sing a Song of Sixpence", "Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross", "Goosey-Goosey Gander", "There Was a Little Man who had a Little Gun", "Jack and Jill" and "To Market to Market to Buy a Fat Pig". The set was a gift to me from a close friend. There are also doll (bear) sized tea spoons which are sterling silver salt spoons, and the sugar tongs in the sugar bowl is Eighteenth Century sterling silver.
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The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.
~ Franz Kafka
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Thousand Island Lake in late May. Mt. Ritter and Banner Peak are in the background.
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Perched high on a wooded hill above Canterbury,
is Chilham’s Castle and estate, pub and school,
Square and Church, tearooms and Tudor houses.
This may well have been one of the last resting places
on the hundred mile pilgrimage from Winchester
to the tomb of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
This journey was undertaken for well over a thousand years
by countless thousands of pilgrims.
It was immortalised by Geoffrey Chaucer in his
bawdy and graphic “Canterbury Tales,” although his was the shorter sixty mile journey, from the Tabard Inn, Southwark, to the Holy Shrine.
Now this hidden gem of a village attracts hordes of modern “pilgrims,” seeking solace in the tearooms, church, pub or Square.
Some may be entertained by bouts of falconry or medieval jousting in the Castle grounds.
Others might retreat here before and/or after sampling the delights of Canterbury’s Cathedral, museums and shops.
Its “staging-post” identity seems unshakeable.
Its charm is undeniable.
Thousands fill the streets of the Sydney CBD to participate in Walk with Christ 2022 - Corpus Christi Procession.
Sunset at the German North Sea coast.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 III
Olympus m.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro
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Hitman 2
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Reshade 4.0.2 for post-processing, Ansel for freecam, nohud and timestop, SRWE for resize
© 2013 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
My title refers to the Japanese concept of Miyabi. It is elegance and refinement, the banishment of everything vulgar or absurd. Nature is full of elegance and refinement. P.S. The combination of the EF 85mm f/1.8 and the EOS M is a very nice one. Almost like having a light walkaround version of the 135L.
Here's a link to a new article that I wrote for PhotoNews Magazine called Widen Your Horizons if you want to take a look here:
Technical information Canon EOS M, Canon EF 85mm f/1.8, Processed in Adobe Lightroom 5 and Exposure 5/Snap Art 4
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"“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” -Buddha
One of three photos taken today in Toronto while sitting in the front passenger seat of my friend's car.
It was sunny and not too cold today, but still colder than normal for this time of the year.
Enjoy your week, thanks for visiting.
For a dull and wet Thursday morning in Dublin we head up to the "Wee North" today to gather some sunshine in Newcastle! Bryansford House looks like a significant pile with a certain symmetry to its frontage suggesting - almost- a semi-detached building?
We learned that this house was the main estate house at Tollymore Park demense - now an NI state forest park of the same name. Originally built for James Hamilton, Earl Clanbrassil in the 1730s, it was the family seat for several generations of the Earls of Roden, who developed the estate lands. The house itself fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1952. The estate, its forest, follies, barns and bridges (some of which we have visited before) thankfully survive....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Likely after c.1880
NLI Ref: L_CAB_02393
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Thousand Palms Oasis Reserve. You are looking south towards Palm Desert/Palm Springs/etc. metro which you can just make out in the center of the photo.
© 2012 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
"Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day." - Eleanor Farjeon, 1931
Technical info: Canon EOS 5D MKII, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS, Hoya Circular Polarizer, Processed in Adobe Lightroom 4, Photomatix Pro, and Photoshop CS5
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I took this picture with the help of my mom this week. I can't believe I am writing that, as it is still so amazing to me that my mom was able to come visit in Rome!! Although she is leaving tomorrow, I know I will see her again in a few weeks when I return home as well.
This image has a lot of meanings for me and the song A Thousand Years by Christina Perri played through my head while editing it. Some things are worth waiting for.
I have a before and after on my Facebook page! Feel free to like it as well :)
© 2012 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
A delicate sunset fading to blues. A dock out into what appears to be the sky...and my favorite element, the life preserver and coiled rope. Ingredients for an image that I personally immediately fell in love with.
Technical info: Canon EOS 5D MK2, Helios 44-2 58mm f/2 lens (M42), Processed in Adobe Lightroom 4, toned in Alien Skin Exposure, signature added in Photoshop CS5
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