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Tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.
― Oliver Burkeman
This photograph was taken on Jubilee Bridge looking towards Mandarin Oriental Hotel (from left of photograph), Ritz Carlton Hotel, Esplanade Outdoor Stage, Singapore Flyer, The Float, ArtScience Museum and Marina Bay Sands. The lattice structures have been erected on the Float to serve as the performance stage for National Day Parade on 9th August. Parts of Ritz Carlton were illuminated by the projected light from The Float.
Captivating sunbeams appeared behind the two hotels and Singapore Flyer. These sunbeams provided interesting contrasts and the mirror-like reflections in the Bay added further interests to the cityscape.
Or was it. :)
“Focusing is about saying no.” Steve Jobs
He must have been very focused because he did say no, maybe for these two ladies it was a very good thing. They just may never know that. :)
Eng ☞ Old wooden wheels in a Lavender field.
Esp ☞ Viejas ruedas de madera en un campo de lavanda.
Fra ☞ Vieilles roues en bois dans un champ de lavande.
This photograph was taken after sunset at Upper Seletar Reservoir. Clouds of various sizes at different elevations were colourfully illuminated. The associated colourful reflections provide additional interests to the landscape at dusk.
Best wishes for a wonderful weekend.
Nyborg is a city in central Denmark, located on the island of Funen. The city was founded in the 1200s, built up around Nyborg Castle.
..it was Saturday, about 7am, i'd been on the streets since 3am ...and I found myself on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, the day was just breaking and two young guys passed by ... on their way home from a Friday night out .. they stopped for a chat, they were friendly, knowledgable around the camera and genuinely interested in what I was doing.
Hope you like the pic guys ...
The Bressanone (Brixen) Cathedral was built in 980. Eventually, after two fires, the Romanesque design with its three naves and two front towers was constructed (around 1200). A Baroque design was later constructed in 1745-1754.
The Bressanone Cathedral's cloister is one of the most important monuments of art in South Tyrol. The cloister is famous in particular for its Gothic frescoes. It was originally built in pre Romanesque times but later redesigned in Romanesque and Gothic style.
A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of a building.
The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church usually indicates that it was part of a monastic foundation forming a continuous and solid architectural barrier that effectively separated the world of the monks from that of the serfs and workmen, whose lives and works went on outside and around the cloister.
(Nikon, 14mm, 1/50 @ f/4, ISO 200)
I was out shooting this pier when the interplay of light and dark made its very strong presence. It was interesting how very strong the two were when opposed to each other and the rather clear delineation that existed between them. Somewhat like the "Yin & Yang", up & down, north & south, how can we know one without the other? Either way, for a brief moment, the story was no longer the structure, but instead a more etherial one that asks questions as mentioned above. How can we know one without the other, since all things are relative.
A seaside resort was developed by Sir Richard Hotham in the late 18th century on what was a sand and gravel, undeveloped coastline. It has been claimed that Hotham and his new resort are portrayed in Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon. The resort grew slowly in the first half of the 19th century but grew rapidly following the coming of the railway in 1864. In 1929 the area was chosen by advisors to King George V which led to its regal suffix, by royal consent. Butlin's has been present in the town since the early 1930s when an amusement park and zoo were opened. A holiday camp followed in 1960 and this has more recently moved towards hotel accommodation with modern amenities.
Information from Wikipedia.
Texture's & Effect's by William Walton & Topaz.
Rila Monastery - the monastery was founded in the 14th century on the site of the hermitage Ivan Rila existing since the 10th century in the valley of Rila mountain.
Modern form of the monastery dates from the 19th century, when through the victims of Bulgarian society and with the agreement of the Turkish authorities built a huge monastery complex. The walls of a thickness of 2 m and a height of 24 m giving it the appearance of a fortified stronghold. The inner courtyard is surrounded by three-storey buildings with arches painted in black and white and wooden galleries.
The main church of the Holy Mother of God is a three-nave basilica based on a cruciform plan with a dome at the intersection of the aisles. The pride of the temple are frescoes and great iconostasis.
In 1983 the monastery was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Rylski Monastyr – monastyr został założony w XIV na miejscu pustelni Iwana z Riły istniejącej od X wieku w kotlinie górskiego masywu Riła.
Współczesna postać monastyru pochodzi z XIX w., kiedy to dzięki ofiarom społeczeństwa bułgarskiego i przy zgodzie władz tureckich wybudowano ogromny kompleks klasztorny. Mury grubości 2 m i wysokości 24 m nadają mu wygląd warownej twierdzy. Wewnętrzny dziedziniec otaczają trójkondygnacyjne budynki z łukami pomalowanymi na czarno i biało oraz drewnianymi krużgankami.
Główna cerkiew pod wezwaniem Świętej Bogurodzicy to trójnawowa bazylika oparta na planie krzyża z kopułą na skrzyżowaniu naw. Ozdobą świątyni są freski i olbrzymi ikonostas.
W 1983 monastyr został wpisany na listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO.
It was a mad dash to try and get to Sandcut Beach to see if I would bag the sunset shot I was looking for. I think this shot speaks for itself. What gorgeousnesss!!! Check out the Video link below!!
It was nice running across this chatty fellow - - a Carolina Wren
I followed it along the trail for a few minutes waiting for a better pose - - I got a series of bursts in about 6 different positions - - this is one of the better ones in my opinion.
Carolina Wren - Ontario
The photo was taken in the early February in 2019. It was very cold that year. Most of the Niagara Falls were frozen except horseshoe falls which flows forever. Got up early from the falls view hotel (missed that experience for the whole 2020), walking along the Niagara Pkwy in a freezing cold winter, I could feel the mist and the sprays from the horseshoe falls … The Niagara river was covered with the thick ice, I did not see like this in several years. But the power flow from the horseshoe falls was still on… it never stops! I wanted to shoot the sunrise, but the sun was blocked behind the clouds, very light morning colors. It was hard to take LE photos at -28C. The camera battery dropped quickly; the lens was covered with vapor… so difficult to capture the photos in that weather condition… Camera went on strike... My fingers hurt, no feeling, numb... itchy, then back to have feeling :))
Now stay-at-home order is still couple of days more in effect, plan to go there soon once the ban is lifted, hope to capture something new in the early morning!
Have a safe and wonderful Friday and weekend!
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Foto wurde durch meine Frau aufgenommen, mit ihrer Ausrüstung -Canon 100-400 L IS II USM, Canon EOS80D - Im Eberswalder Zoo ist es immer eine Herausforderug gute Fotos zu machen, Viele hohe Bäume erschweren das Fotografieren, aber bei hohen Temeraturen ist es dort auszuhalten
while it was still dark we had gone to a simple bird hide to be there before the flocks of Meyer's parrots and African green pigeons arrive at the clay eating site at sunrise.
While we were waiting we heard some noise behind us and after a while we knew these were warthogs ( definitely safer than some other possibilities...)
The family of warthogs came closer and had picked up our scent but they had no clue where we were.
The huge male in this image was walking in front and stopped nearby to look in our direction.
You can clearly see both set of tusks of which the very sharp small ones are used for fighting other warthogs or for defense against predators. The larger ones are used for digging etc.
Kafue National Park, Zambia
phacochoerus africanus
common warthog
knobbelzwijn
phacochère
Warzenschwein
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Yeah, and a Happy Fucking Valentine's Day to you, too.
I want you to hold out the palm of your hand
Why don't we leave it at that?
I was focusing on the head of the Eagle in its nest on the top of the tree to the left, when suddenly s/he took flight. I know this isn't a very good photo, but I was so thrilled to even get this shot.
...back to the countryside again...my heart is there, after all, and I was missing it! No matter whether it's real life, second life, and I am certain even if there was a third life, I would always feel like a fish outta water if I wasn't surrounded by trees and animals and natural beauty. Lil Chow was worn out after his city adventure, so he stayed home and snoozed while Shep and I scampered off to this dream of a sim to play! Okay, I was chilling out, he was playing!
On the way home, we picked up some fresh carrots as a surprise for bunny! I can't wait to see his cute face light up when he sees them! 💕🐇🐶
I hope everyone is having a beautiful week! ♥
After I saw the two steering wheel cart with the family and dog, there appeared this male green heron in the nearby pond....my first seen in Minnesota.
I was able to edit enough to bring out the bird's colors as the sun was out and on the wrong side of this beautiful heron.
Enjoy the weekend Flickr friends, thanks for your visit....Pat...xo
A beautiful day was coming to an end and the setting sun transformed the surroundings into a fairytale landscape. After the relatively warm day, it quickly became bitterly cold. I made my way back to Sils Maria on the frozen lake, grateful for the magnificent impressions I was able to enjoy.
Ein schöner Tag neigte sich zu Ende und die untergehende Sonne verwandelte die Umgebung in eine Märchenlandschaft. Nach dem relativ warmen Tag wurde es dann sehr schnell bitterkalt. Auf dem gefrorenen Silsersee machte ich mich wieder zurück nach Sils Maria, dankbar für die wunderschönen Eindrücke, die ich geniessen durfte.
** This was photographed in a friends garden in Lockton in North Yorkshire in the Spring of 2019 . I thought the encounter between the live bird and the stone cat amusing …but there again I am easily amused
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I was fortunate enough to see a number of reticulated giraffes when I was in northern Kenya last month. With only about 15 000 animals left in the wild, these are rare animals that can only be found in northern Kenyan parks like Ol Pejeta and Samburu. This particular animal was on the move in the early evening.
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This was taken at a local wetlands area near my home.
Used as a source image for DUC May 2026.
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We don´t see light we are light.
and we´re spreading light.
Where light shines through
it´s something thin and fragile
But only that way can the light get in...
There are places to go where your spirits are never dampened. Look for those places.
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Not all insights need to be dazzling.
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It's only possible to live happily ever after on a moment to moment basis.
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The paths we take depend on our definitions of success.
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Projection is; seeing the world through our own experience.
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Just trust that everything is unfolding the
way it is supposed to. Don't resist.
Surrender to what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be. Great things are waiting for you around the corner.
Sonia Ricotti
I was wandering a field one day and saw a clump of clover flowers....for some lizard brain reason I felt compelled to eat them...they were very sugary. How did my brain know that? Then I thought about all the squirrels that probably peed on them...ugh...my brain can be so mean.
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...bei den "Saltos del Río Petrohué" in der Nähe von Puerto Varas (Chile) im Parque Nacional "Vicente Pérez Rosales".
Im Hintergrund hat man den Blick auf den Vulkan Osorno.
This mural was made by GOMAD (Marcus Debie) during Urban Colour festival 2017 Arnhem. I'm surprised that the colors still look so fresh.
Happy Wall Wednesday
Found some info about him on his website:
""GOMAD (Marcus Debie, 1972) is a colorblind Dutch artist, born and raised in the city of Sittard in the south of Holland where he still lives and works. Heavily influenced by the iconic film, ‘Beat Street’, as well as ‘Style Wars’, GOMAD got artistically active all the way back to the early 80’s in the Southern Dutch graff scene. So much so, that he’s considered one of the pioneers of the sport in that region.
Nowadays he works as an international ‘urban fine artist’ doing murals and paintings for exhibitions wherever his art brings him. GOMAD’s work is considered a pinnacle of post-neo-cubism, the combination of photorealistic images, often woman faces, eyes and birds in a mind bending surrealistic setup, against cubistic and organic shapes, in a Picasso-like composition, combining oil paint, acrylics and sprays in a vibrant and unique way.""
Street Art Arnhem.
Alfie was helping to roll up the wire,
but he rolled himself with it ;-))
This little pup was nearly 1 year old here.
My dearest ✞ Alfie.
Today (August 5, 2022) it's been 1 year
since he crossed the rainbow bridge.🌈
NB: Alfie was not hurt or anything else during his play that day.
That was a bitter cold January morning. There was no wind but fog at the foot of the Untersberg. I waited for the sunrise that did not want to come. I hope my picture can convey this wintry mood to you a bit. Thank you for visiting my gallery!
It was an unforgettable session with a perfect morning light. I've been waiting for this day for several months, thinking about the cadres I wanted to do.
There are only a few places at the church where you can use a wide-angle lens. In a few photos I used the Hitech ND 0.9 Grad Soft filter (85x110), and some of the photos I took from the tripod and hand in places where I could not use a tripod.
Such an unusual moment, in addition to the uniqueness of the mood of peace and quiet during this session was an unexpected meeting. When I quietly moved around the church taking photos - suddenly I heard somebody was running (on a steep road from stone blocks) and the conversation of two people (father and son) and their loud breaths (the church is on the hill and it was very early) - their surprise that this time of the day someone is photographing in this place was immeasurable and unforgettable.