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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 heard about a waterfall in Death Valley, I had to check it out for myself. Not much volume, but amazing to find flowing water in the desert.
Enjoying a Thai Singha beer from the Baiyoke Sky Hotel Bar, just one floor below the rotating observation deck. Arrive early, beat the crowds, relax with the views.
I've talked about this before, but I can't help feel content and relaxed when at an empty station on a sunny day. I think it's something I am not use to maybe. Here I have to drive everywhere. There is no waiting for anything. I just get up and go. In Japan, I am at the station and completely out of control. I can't make the train come any faster, so I just have to wait and enjoy my surroundings. =)
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I found a very old camera, and when the pictures were developed this was one of them. Probably taken by a T-Rex.
Manufactured when all 126s were Polish made, Italian production ceased in 1979.
Plenty of these still on the go in Italy, generally in better condition than 500s.
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
Tip:
When shooting 2 models make sure you don't just let them pose "together" make them do something, tell a little story.
Of course this won't work like this for families, but when doing a modelshoot where you have the "free hand" it will help you to break the standard "there are 2 models in the scene but I don't have a clue what they are doing" thingy.
These images and much more tips you can see in my new KelbyOne classes
...publicly humiliate that summbitch.
One of my "Honey turn the car around!" moments this weekend. I love when we run across gems like this.
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Something that I actually like, which I took in Canada. My goal is to take more photos like this, where i let go of my inhibitions, and create photographs mean something.
My images this week seem to have focussed on seasons. Strange that Christmas came before Autumn but then we are living in strange times.
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When picking saintly, angelic elderflowers, always keep an eye out for their sinister, twisted step-cousin the edible jelly ear fungus (Auricularia auricularia-judae) which only grows on elder trees that are past their prime.
When religious warmongers with criminal minds assassinate artists for their expression and ideas using a pen, many markers come forward to make a point with ballpoint all over the world, all over again!
And with this thought that some journalists are saying "it's just an isolated incident" and not a terrorists action is beyond conception. .. Apparently we should not be so “racists” talking about it, my steady question arises again; since when religion became a race? Among many issues, there's one thing I don't understand within the Liberal Democrats - which is; why do they take away liberty from the tolerant citizens to give it away to those that do not have emancipation in their roots for their own?
Willow: ... I'm going to be Storm, the X-Man.
Me: Don't you mean X-Woman?
Willow: No, it's X-Man even if it's a woman I'm sure.
Me: You mean X-Men then. Not man. It's a group name.
Willow: .... When I grow up, I'm going to be Storm and cast lightning bolts on meanies and sunshine on not meanies.
Willow had a way to make me see sense...
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For the theme "When I Grow Up" in the Blythe a Day group.
After 6 months , i'm resuming the "when it rains" series , The heavy rain season started a couple on Wednesday . I know I haven't been around much lately , it's been very hectic but fortunately i'll have more time in a couple of days .
there is no slow lingering death but rather a collapse and swift demise to oblivion.
Makuleke Concession
Kruger National Parl
Limpopo
South Africa
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin Delano Rosevelt
#gotterdammerungbricks
When people are photographed in color, they photograph their clothes. But when people are photographed in black and white, they photograph their souls!
(Ted Grant)
This photo was shot on the Oregon coast.
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