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and when he attends a funeral, he wants to be the corpse :-) Alice Roosevelt Longworth
pyrus, 'ohara beni', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina. HFF!!
Explorgiastic!!
Had some pretty smoky conditions this year from the Canada fires. Good to hear they have been getting some much needed rain. And for us a wonderful show before bedtime.
Seattle, Washington
The closure of the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre sent shockwaves through Nottingham as the future of the historic site was thrown into uncertainty. The Broadmarsh lease was handed back to Nottingham City Council last June 2020 when INTU collapsed into administration.
The Greater Broadmarsh site totals an estimated 20 acres in the heart of Nottingham city centre, stretching from Nottingham Castle to the new Nottingham College development. The site incorporates the former Broadmarsh Shopping Centre and former Nottingham College buildings on Maid Marian Way.
Photo taken 17 June 2021
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'When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell
When I went to Madrid in 2019, there was an incredible amount of R21s still going. Three years later, much had changed, but it did (and still does) feel like a different world.
This earlier example looked great.
When we left work this morning there was not much in the way clear skies, just a few breaks in the clouds. The forecast was for clear skies and as we started off, the clouds started to break. We stopped by the riverside and started taking pictures. Fifteen minutes later and starting to loose feeling our fingers, we were done.
There was a heavy band of clouds on the horizon and we could see the sun starting to rise up over the clouds. The clouds started to get pink edges and a golden light began to show behind the lowest clouds. Within moments, the sun broke through and everything lit up with a golden light.
When my wife and I married I promised to take her on a cruise. She said this is not what she had in mind.
When I came to this lake! The fall colors are already past peak. But I got a perfect reflection and this can be one of my favorite photos from the trip. This panorama was done with 2 shots. There were no clouds in the sky and that make this shot very clean. The water was calm and it looks like a nature mirror. Eastern Sierra truly has a lot of beautiful lakes. Lake Sabrina is located at Bishop at the end of CA-168.
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When you dont have the luxury to shoot with a tripod, u must get a lil creative with ur camera positioning :)
And,……when the adorable little « wild » yellow ones re-appear on our beloved earth, still being fresh, and covered by dry fallen leaves and branches, then, there is NO doubt : Spring has COME ! For good! And every big or small creature -- animal , plant , or human one — it is there to celebrate!!! Everything seems to change in form and colour!! Cause everything becomes active, brighter, sparkling, and colourful ! It is just our Mama’s Nature …magic wand, ….in action! After all, Spring is the time of everything’s and everyone’s re-BIRTH and re-newal!! …Outwardly,….and…..inwardly….
**** I wish and pray from my heart, for the beautiful JAPAN’S TRUE REBIRTH!!! I wish , that ALL my Japanese talented Nature-Photographers friends, are SAFE and WELL!!! I just, can’t stand thinking of them otherwise!!...
When I dropped this off, the clerk exclaimed "This is the new Cinestill 800T/120!"
I replied, "Yes, I'm a beta tester."
They'll be getting a report after I post a few more (I want them to see my handiwork, obvs)
Impressions: very forgiving. Right now, the ONLY tungsten balanced 120 print film I'm aware of.
Mamiya 645J, a minute at F8 (I think - while I did bracket, it's super hard to tell which is which) with 55 2.8N. Scanning: Epson V600. Edited in Lightroom, final de-graining and sharpness in NeatImage.
This has been a bit of a beast to get to the state that I have it here on flickr. Started out as 16 full frame files taken from on top of the Arc de Triomph looking towards La Défense in the lower section and towards the Louvre in the top section. The final image was 1.5 GB so I had to crush down to upload. I have left as a big file so as you can see the detail, so do look at the largest file size.
A sight that saddened me when we were walking along to Bolton's Bench is this derelict hotel. It's hard to imagine why it's not still open and thriving in such a great location in the New Forest between the shops of Lyndhurst and Bolton's Bench. Some background info below.
The origins of the present structure date back to the 19th century, when George Buck built it as a home for him and his wife.
It later passed into the possession of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole. Stacpoole ran a local smuggling ring from the house and in 1847 newspapers reported he barricaded himself in the property when it was raided by authorities.
Later in the 19th century the mansion became a home for railway entrepreneur Charles Castleman, and it was not until 1895 that it was sold as the Grand Hotel. During the works to convert it into a hotel, construction workers said they could see the face of Duc de Stacpoole staring through the windows of the house.
Fitzgeorge is also said to haunt the hotel every year on the date of his death. Legend has it that music can be heard in parts of the building from the annual ball he holds for the dead.
Perhaps one of the hotel's most famous guests was Arthur Conan Doyle, who became a regular visitor. He also sketched out designs for a third storey extension and a new façade to the building. These plans were later made into a reality when an extension to the hotel was made using his designs.
This historical significance was used by campaigners to try and halt the development by Hoburne after Conan Doyle's sketched from 1912 were unearthed. Olivia Stockdale, conservation adviser for the Victorian Society, said the sketches were "the only known surviving example of Conan Doyle’s solo architectural work and a tangible representation of his spiritualist beliefs.
"This bizarre yet fascinating feature should be protected and championed in a redevelopment scheme not swept away."
In 1970 the property was renamed as the Lyndhurst Park Hotel and had extensions added to develop it into a 60-bed hotel.
Notable guests who reportedly stayed at the hotel over the years include Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, pop royalty The Beatles and Lord Carnarvon of Highclere Castle.
Since 2014 the hotel has laid empty and parts of the building started to collapse in 2020.
An update: A major scheme to redevelop the site of the derelict Lyndhurst Park Hotel has secured planning permission for 79 new homes.
I found a very old camera, and when the pictures were developed this was one of them. Probably taken by a T-Rex.
Painted Hills Unit near Mitchell, OR
The color variations are beautiful and the various colors appear different depending on the light as well. Beautiful place!
When Japan was still virtually inaccessible to foreign travellers - American admiral Perry only adventured here in 1852 - Carl Johann Maximowicz, director of the Botanical Garden of St Petersburg, Russia, ventured there on his round-the-world journey 1853-1857. As a botanist he trod the footsteps of those intrepid naturalist forebears Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), the 'Japanese Linnaeus', and Philip Franz von Siebold (1796-1866), whom I've often mentioned in these pages.
Maximowicz traveled widely in Japan under often extremely trying circumstances, and he made a huge collection of Japanese plants. Among these he collected - and later described scientifically - this magnificent Daisy in what was then called Jedo or Edo and which we know today as Tokyo. Nippon Daisy was soon afterwards imported into Europe and made its way across the Atlantic to become widely disseminated on the northeastern seaboard of the USA, especially on Long Island; hence its local name: Montauk Daisy.
This photo was taken in the tiny secluded plot in the Hortus devoted to Japanese plants in honor of Thunberg.
Barbie Q had fun flying around the yard with her little squeaker friend :D
Idiom: When pigs fly - indicates something that will never happen
...publicly humiliate that summbitch.
One of my "Honey turn the car around!" moments this weekend. I love when we run across gems like this.