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This was a very special moment for us at Birnie loch this morning. We have hand fed robins before but always put our hand on the ground for them to feed off. On this occasion this little guy flew very close to us and sat on some branches looking at us. Wendy held her hand out and he flew right on to it. He sat quite happily eating seed. When someone passed by he flew off but returned again several times. A fantastic experience especially for Wendy for the trust this little guy showed in her. (made explore #1 on 26/11/08)
No words could describe the feeling that came over me the first time a chickadee delicately landed on my hand at the Mer Bleue Bog.
*Explore/Interestingness*
markham trusts his daddy.
this image is slightly underexposed - captured on a very bright sunny day - but i love it nevertheless. it speaks volumes to me.
This was an experience while on holiday in Scotland unlike any other when the wild birds trust you sufficiently to take food from you. Robins I know about but Coal Tits demonstrating such trust and boldness! :)
I particularly like this shot having managed to capture the activity of the other bird in the background, just a shame the wings were out of the frame (uncropped image).
Special moments!
[Explore 17/1/2012 reached #15]
Picture taken at Cyprian Garden in Second Life.
Erich's Hair is by Mina. Skin by Birth. Collar by Salt & Pepper.
Astrid's outfit is by Valentine E., Hair by Truth Hawks, Skin by Glam Affair. Body by Maitreya.
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Poem to accompany this portrait appears on my personal blog here:
One day I’ll learn to trust my intuition. The color wasn’t bad early but it faded off about 10 minutes before sunrise. That’s not really unusual. It’s just that my intuition told me that was it until the Sun appeared over the horizon and I’d want the big lens for when that happened. But I just sat there and let the chance to change slip away.
Oh well, I shot it with my regular landscape lens and cropped it. Jimmy told me a long time ago I should learn to trust my intuition. I should have listened. You should too.
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Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
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©Don Brown 2023
Union Trust Building. 501 Grant Street, Pittsburgh
According to Wikipedia, the building was originally called the Union Arcade when developed by Pittsburgh's very own coal and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick in 1916. In 1923, the Union Trust Company bought the building and remodelled the lower four floors, removing the 240 shops that formed the "arcade" of the commercial high-rise.
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Aroona Dam, Aroona Sanctuary - built by the Electricity Trust of South Australia from 1952 to 1957. The original purpose was to supply the town of Leigh Creek and the Leigh Creek Coalfield.
In 1995 the dam and adjoining land covering an area of 43 square kilometres were declared a sanctuary under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972.
The Leigh Creek Coalfield closed in 2015.
Workington Transport Heritage Trust Scania L94UB / Wright Solar A5 XTJ (ex YN08 GXE) passing through Keswick, Cumbria operating a free shuttle service for the Keswick Show, 29/08/22
The last time I saw this was in service in York:-
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Detail shots of one of the falls at the Huntsville Land Trust. This is the base of the larger set of falls off of the old railroad bed.
Un vieux monsieur et des pigeons... Ils se sont retrouvés quelques instants, sans un regard aux passants...
Place de la Cathédrale, Marsala, Sicile .
Why is it people seem incapable of taking photos when you ask them to do so but when you do one of them it comes out good??
Sorry about this being blurred beyond blurred sadly this is the best one of the evening well I have one other that might be ok once its ben worked on a little.
Yes I am wearing flats lol. As you can just make out we did have a laugh and the dancing wasn't that bad either. Jamie lead me a few times and I danced with one or two other ladies who weren't getting a dance, the joys of being able to lead and kind of follow.
Any way back to the title. Don't trust anyone to tale a good photo of you if they fancy the man you are stood next to lol
INS46 Trust in the Old Harbour at Lossiemouth. Not as old as some of the others, think the transom stern dates its build to the early Seventies.
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company Building
currently Wells Fargo Building
sculptors: Piccirilli Brothers
window designers: d'Ascenzo Studios
architect: Simon & Simon, 1927-28
architectural style: Beaux-Arts
Center City - Rittenhouse Square
Avenue of the Arts - Broad Street Historic District
123-151 S. Broad St.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
That is a corner of Knole House in Kent .
Knole feels almost weighed down by its own history – six centuries of it. People are often impressed by all the absolutes of Knole: its enormous size, the number of rooms, its completeness. But those who live, work and visit here love its quiet dignity, its almost melancholy feel – the grandeur has passed but its old, glinting beauty remains.
What we see today is a remarkably preserved and complete early Jacobean remodelling of a medieval archiepiscopal palace. From an even older manor house, it was built and extended by the Archbishops of Canterbury after 1456. It then became a royal possession during the Tudor dynasty when Henry VIII hunted here and Elizabeth I visited.
From 1603, Thomas Sackville made it the aristocratic treasure house for the Sackville family, who were prominent and influential in court circles. Knole's showrooms were designed to impress visitors and to display the Sackville family’s wealth and status.
Over more than 400 years, his descendants rebuilt and then furnished Knole in two further bursts of activity. First, at the end of the 17th century, when the 6th Earl acquired Stuart furniture and textiles from royal palaces, and again at the end of the 18th century, with the 3rd Duke's art collection.
The Sackvilles gradually withdrew into the heart of the house, leaving many rooms unused and treasures covered. This helps to explain the relative lack of modernisation at Knole (central heating was never installed in the showrooms, for example) and the survival of its collections.
Knole has been welcoming visitors to see its splendours and curiosities for centuries. We know that visitors have followed the same route as you do today for at least the last 400 years.
There's a popular myth that Knole is a calendar house - with 365 rooms, 52 staircases, 12 entrances and 7 courtyards. While fascinating, the reality is that it all depends on how you count the rooms and Knole is such a large, rambling estate that it would be impossible to say for certain.
When the National Trust acquired the house in 1946, the majority of the rooms were leased back to the Sackville family, with the Trust retaining the more formal spaces. The 7th Baron Sackville and his family still live at Knole today in private apartments.
Now, visitors can experience so many different parts of Knole, from the grand showrooms to the cosy Gatehouse Tower, the tranquil Orangery to the sweeping parkland. Discover the vast estate and all it has to offer, home to a world-class collection of portraits and furniture, a state-of-the-art conservation studio and a wild deer herd. There really is something for everyone at Knole.
info taken from NT webpage on Knole .
This National Trust property is famous for being the ancestral home of the first USA President, George Washington. In fact, Washington DC takes it names from the very village where this building still stands.
It rather lucky that it does stand because it very nearly ended up being demolished, so run down had it become.
By the 19th century, the hall had been divided up into tenement flats and in the years that followed, gradually fell into a state of disrepair. Finally, in 1936, the building was declared to be unfit for human habitation. Luckily, it was saved from being bulldozed by a local school teacher by the name of Fred Hill. Fred formed a group which became known as the 'Friends of Washington Old Hall', whose aims were to save and preserve the building.
Restoration work began, and although it was halted during Word War II, it was finally completed in 1955.
A couple of years later, the National Trust took over management of the building.